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 87% 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 cast
27,937
across all sessions
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720
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 1210
School Transportation - As enacted, establishes a school transportation supervisor program for the monitoring and oversight of transportation services for local education authorities and charter schools; requires new school bus drivers to complete a training program prior to transporting students; requires a driver to be at least 25 years of age to receive an initial school bus driver license endorsement. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21; Section 55-50-302 and Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Mar 29, 2017
SB 389
Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes the City of McMinnville, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 2.5 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in McMinnville; the ordinance must set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax; requires that all proceeds received by the municipality from the tax be used for tourism development. - Amends amend TCA Section 67-4-1425.
Yea
Passed
11–0
Mar 28, 2017
SB 1206
Mental Illness - As enacted, establishes procedures to be followed by the trial court for the diagnosis, evaluation, and initial treatment of persons found not guilty by reason of insanity for first degree murder or certain other Class A felonies. - Amends TCA Section 33-7-303.
Yea
Passed
11–0
Mar 28, 2017
SB 1215
Telecommunications - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Broadband Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7; Title 7, Chapter 59, Part 3; Title 65, Chapter 25 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.
Yea
Passed
11–0
Mar 28, 2017
SB 1216
Education, Higher - As enacted, replaces the Tennessee National Guard Tuition Assistance Act with the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act of 2017. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10.
Yea
Passed
11–0
Mar 28, 2017
SB 1208
Taxes, Sales - As enacted, delays effective date of certain streamlined sales tax provisions until July 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 67; Chapter 72 of the Public Acts of 2011; Chapter 273 of the Public Acts of 2015; Chapter 480 of the Public Acts of 2013; Chapter 530 of the Public Acts of 2009 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.
Yea
Passed
11–0
Mar 28, 2017
SB 1207
Taxes, Franchise - As enacted, alters the formula for calculating quarterly estimated payments for franchise and excise taxes; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2008 and Section 67-4-2015.
Yea
Passed
11–0
Mar 28, 2017
SB 24
Handgun Permits - As enacted, exempts active-duty military service members and veterans who have specialties as military police, special operations, or special forces from handgun carry permit firing range requirements. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Yea
Passed
29–0
Mar 27, 2017
SB 1322
Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As enacted, removes requirement that agencies receiving public funding to assist businesses with sales volumes of $200,000 or less, or with fewer than 15 employees, must annually file a report with the department detailing the agencies' success with assisting such businesses; removes requirement that the office of minority business enterprise, or other division, must file a report with the commissioner compiling the agencies' filed data and must annually report the results of the data to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3.
Yea
Passed
29–0
Mar 27, 2017
SJR 180
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jay Robinson, Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation -
Yea
Passed
29–0
Mar 27, 2017
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