Total votes
27,937
all sessions
Attendance
98%
551 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
97%
of cast votes
Lower than 96% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 93% of chamber peers
Sponsored
1,268
bills & resolutions
Higher than 84% of chamber peers
Committees
4
assignments
27,937 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
27,083
voted in favor
Nay
756
voted against
Absent
551
missed votes
Total recorded
27,937
across all sessions
Crossed party
719
votes against own party
Matching
27,937
matching current filters
Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 2366
Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners to issue a provisional foreign training license of two years, which may be extended for an additional one year, to an internationally trained physician who has successfully completed the examination described in current law upon finding sufficient evidence that the internationally trained physician has met certain listed criteria; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 63.
Yea
Passed
32–0
Apr 6, 2026
SB 2031
Healthcare Liability - As enacted, authorizes a person to bring a civil action against a healthcare professional for an injury that is a result of a medical procedure, if the procedure was for enabling the person to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the person's sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the person's sex and asserted identity, and the person consented; or if the person was a minor at the time of the procedure, the person's parent, guardian, or representative consented due to an act of coercion by the professional. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 63 and Title 68.
Yea
Passed
27–5
Apr 6, 2026
HJR 1135
Memorials, Recognition - The Coca-Cola Company and its support of America250 -
Yea
Passed
32–0
Apr 6, 2026
SB 837
Statutes and Codification - As enacted, clarifies that a "person," as used in Tennessee Code Annotated, does not include artificial intelligence, a computer algorithm, a software program, computer hardware, or any type of machine. - Amends TCA Title 1.
Yea
Passed
26–6
Apr 6, 2026
SB 591
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies, for purposes of criminal offenses relative to threats of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity or failing to report such threats, that a threat of mass violence is credible if the threat causes another to reasonably expect the commission of an act of mass violence. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Yea
Passed
32–0
Apr 6, 2026
SB 2083
Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, increases from three to five the maximum number of nonrelated persons in a home for the aged to be considered a tier 1 home for the aged; increases from four to six the maximum number of nonrelated persons in a home for the aged to be considered a tier 2 home for the aged. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.
Yea
Passed
32–0
Apr 6, 2026
SB 2280
District Attorneys - As enacted, authorizes the district attorneys general conference to pay the licensing fees for software applications used by the office of the district attorney general within a judicial district, regardless of whether the district attorney general office staff member using the application has a position funded by the state or another entity. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 16 and Title 40.
Yea
Passed
32–0
Apr 6, 2026
SB 997
Annexation - As introduced, specifies circumstances in which a referendum will not be required to effectuate annexation of territory; removes repealer provision for exceptions to the referendum requirement. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-104. Against party
Nay
Passed
29–4
Apr 6, 2026
HJR 1231
Memorials, Sports - Eagleville High School girls' volleyball team, 2025 TSSAA Class A state champions -
Yea
Passed
32–0
Apr 6, 2026
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