D Tennessee Senate · District 29 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Raumesh Akbari

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Session

Total votes

22,680

all sessions

Attendance

81%

4,641 missed

Lower than 94% of chamber peers

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 80% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

21,192

voted in favor

Nay

1,247

voted against

Absent

4,641

missed votes

Total cast

22,680

across all sessions

Crossed party

49

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 879

Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the commissioner to provide the commissioner of correction with a form application for food assistance for use by inmates who are preparing for release. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 3.

Yea

Passed

31–1

Apr 14, 2026

HB 1986

Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires a county incurring expenses pursuant to a criminal prosecution to provide an invoice of the expenses imposed on the county to the department; requires, within 60 days of receiving an invoice, the department to pay the amount of the invoiced expenses permitted by law to the county. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 14, 2026

HB 2567

Domestic Violence - As enacted, makes various changes to the present law pertaining to the persistent domestic violence offender registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Apr 14, 2026

SB 259

Children - As enacted, clarifies that a child's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian may, to the extent allowable by federal law, access and review all health and medical records of the child, including those records related to treatments available to unemancipated minors without parental consent; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

Nay

Passed

24–7

Apr 14, 2026

HB 656

Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, extends present law concerning compensated unused leave for teachers to all employees of LEAs and public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 14, 2026

SB 1700

Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study of the potential regulation of artificial intelligence systems and generative artificial intelligence chatbots in this state. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 37 and Title 47.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Apr 14, 2026

SB 821

Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes a pilot program that provides grants to local education agencies to advance substance abuse and violence prevention programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 14, 2026

SB 1477

Special License Plates - As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to license plates, including, but not limited to, creating new specialty earmarked license plates and cultural license plates, granting extensions to certain license plates, and making other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

Yea

Passed

33–0

Apr 13, 2026

SB 1478

Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to the naming of certain roads and bridges. - Amends TCA Title 54.

Yea

Passed

33–0

Apr 13, 2026

HB 1447

Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Trump Account Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 50.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Apr 13, 2026