R Tennessee Senate · District 31 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Brent Taylor

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Session

Total votes

8,025

all sessions

Attendance

94%

301 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

7,912

voted in favor

Nay

108

voted against

Absent

301

missed votes

Total cast

8,025

across all sessions

Crossed party

49

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SJR 505

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brittney Osburne, Mt. Juliet Middle School Teacher of the Year -

Yea

Passed

34–0

Apr 22, 2025

SB 1115

Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, provides that in a facility operated pursuant to a contract to provide correctional services, or in a facility operated pursuant to a contract with a county to hold state inmates and that county has entered into a contract with a contractor to provide correctional services, if the death rate of inmates at the facility is twice the death rate of an equivalent state-operated facility, then the department must reduce the population at such facility by 10%. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 12; Title 40 and Title 41.

Yea

Passed

34–0

Apr 22, 2025

SB 714

Education - As enacted, requires an educational oversight board to be created for an LEA that meets certain criteria and is established to annually conduct a comprehensive needs assessment of the LEA to determine the factors that may be contributing to the LEA meeting such criteria; requires the oversight board to develop a transformation plan that identifies performance and operational goals for the LEA and benchmarks for assessing the LEA's progress toward meeting such goals; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

28–6

Apr 22, 2025

SJR 509

Memorials, Recognition - Tracy Solomon, Veteran Owned Small Business of the Year -

Yea

Passed

34–0

Apr 22, 2025

SJR 491

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kala Ealy, Gladeville Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

Yea

Passed

34–0

Apr 22, 2025

SJR 493

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julie T. Smith, Elzie D. Patton Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

Yea

Passed

34–0

Apr 22, 2025

SB 1019

Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to allocate the state share of the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula funds generated by student members of a public charter school in the prior school year directly to the public charter school instead of allocating such funds to the local education agency in which the public charter school is located. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 3.

Yea

Passed

26–0

Apr 22, 2025

HJR 702

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Witt Kaslikowski, perfect score on the ACT -

Yea

Passed

33–0

Apr 22, 2025

HJR 686

Memorials, Retirement - Buck Carter, Benton County Highway Supervisor -

Yea

Passed

33–0

Apr 22, 2025

SB 950

Education - As enacted, creates a federal education deregulation cooperation task force to prepare Tennessee for the potential of deregulation of federal laws, regulations, requirements, and guidance for K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

26–4

Apr 22, 2025