D Tennessee Senate · District 29

Sen. Lee Harris

Compare

Total votes

3,508

all sessions

Attendance

85%

541 missed

Higher than 78% of chamber peers

With party

99%

of cast votes

Higher than 80% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 85% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

3,355

voted in favor

Nay

114

voted against

Absent

541

missed votes

Total cast

3,508

across all sessions

Crossed party

23

votes against own party

This page

3,508

matching current filters

Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 709

Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires the commissioners of health and mental health and substance abuse services to produce guidelines on nonresidential buprenorphine treatment by January 1, 2018, and to annually update those guidelines. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Mar 27, 2017

SJR 251

Memorials, Retirement - Chris Hamby -

Yea

Passed

28–0

Mar 27, 2017

SB 1211

Safety, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the division of protective services to provide police services for all state office buildings; requires the division to oversee the state facility protection officer program in conjunction with the commissioner of safety or the commissioner's designee; requires that certain officer commissions be issued only to persons assigned to property owned or leased by the state. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-2006 and Section 4-3-2019.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 27, 2017

SB 989

Animal Control - As enacted, establishes uniform requirement that agencies that take in stray and abandoned animals make an effort to contact the animal's owner within 48 hours of the receipt of the animal, or within two business days of the receipt of the animal when received on a Friday, when there is some identification marking or tag on the animal that bears notification information. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 44 and Section 55-4-290.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 27, 2017

SB 710

Libraries - As enacted, revises provisions related to the operation of local libraries and the state regional library system; specifies terms for board service. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1; Title 10, Chapter 3; Title 10, Chapter 5; Title 10, Chapter 8; Title 10, Chapter 1 and Title 40, Chapter 39.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 27, 2017

SB 240

Boards and Commissions - As enacted, authorizes the governor to appoint persons to fill positions on certain boards from lists of nominees submitted by interested groups, instead of requiring appointments to be made from such lists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 13, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 13, Part 3 and Title 63, Chapter 23, Part 1.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 27, 2017

HB 81

Charitable Institutions - As enacted, permits a nonprofit organization desiring financial assistance from a county or municipality to file, in lieu of completing and filing an annual audit, an annual report of receipts and expenditures in a form prescribed by the comptroller of the treasury; requires such report to be prepared and certified by the nonprofit's CFO; subjects such report to audit by the department of audit. - Amends TCA Section 5-9-109 and Section 6-54-111.

Yea

Passed

30–0

Mar 27, 2017

SJR 257

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Lessie Virginia Jackson, 100th birthday -

Yea

Passed

28–0

Mar 27, 2017

SJR 249

Memorials, Recognition - Smoky Mountain Field School, 40th anniversary -

Yea

Passed

28–0

Mar 27, 2017

SB 527

Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, requires county and municipal mayors, and any other authorities, who appoint members to municipal solid waste regional boards to strive to ensure that at least two elected officials serve on each regional board; authorizes the department of environment and conservation to provide guidelines and best practices for composting and recycling to regional board members, advisory committees, and Class I, Class III, and Class IV landfill owners and operators. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211, Part 8.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 27, 2017