Total votes
15,713
all sessions
Attendance
93%
1,075 missed
Higher than 80% of chamber peers
With party
98%
of cast votes
Among the lowest in the chamber
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 98% of chamber peers
Sponsored
275
bills & resolutions
Lower than 77% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
15,713 roll-call votes
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Yea
15,397
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262
voted against
Absent
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Vote
Result
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Date
SB 1302
Child Abuse - As enacted, requires the department of children's services to develop guidelines on the best practices for identifying and reporting signs of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking in which the victim is a child; requires the department of education to use the guidelines to identify child abuse training programs appropriate for teachers; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to ensure teachers complete a child abuse training program. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 23; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 9.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 12, 2017
SB 729
Education - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Educators Protection Act". - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 28; Title 29; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 12, 2017
SB 1039
Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires that the TBI’s completed investigative report be disclosed to the public after the district attorney general has completed its prosecutorial function; authorizes the district attorney to disclose all or part of the report prior to the record becoming a public record. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 8, Chapter 7 and Title 38.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 12, 2017
SJR 92
Constitutional Conventions - Makes application to Congress for the purpose of calling a constitutional convention for proposing a congressional term limit amendment. -
Yea
Passed
5–3
Apr 12, 2017
SB 1163
Estates - As enacted, makes various changes to probate law, including requiring that the receipt of a distributee or legatee be executed under penalty of perjury or sworn before the clerk or a notary public. - Amends TCA Title 30.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 12, 2017
SB 1182
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, authorizes property owners to provide notice that trespassing is prohibited on their property by marking trees and posts with purple paint as an alternative to posting signs. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 12, 2017
SB 279
Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, limits any action to recover damages against a real estate appraiser arising out of the appraiser's real estate appraisal activity to being brought within one year from a person's discovery of the act or omission giving rise to the action; limits any disciplinary action against a real estate appraisal by the Board of Real Estate Appraisers from three years from the date the appraisal was completed. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 62, Chapter 39.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 12, 2017
SB 197
Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, establishes factors a court must consider when sentencing a juvenile who has been transferred and convicted in adult court; establishes a maximum number of years, depending on whether the crime results in death or not, a juvenile can be required to serve for adult crimes; and makes the provisions retroactive to juveniles serving adult sentences prior to effective date. - Amends TCA Title 40.
Nay
Passed
5–4
Apr 12, 2017
SB 550
Victims' Rights - As enacted, makes the identifying information of the minor victim of a criminal offense confidential and not open to inspection by members of the public, unless a court waives the confidentiality at the request of the minor's custodial parent or legal guardian; creates certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 12, 2017
SB 311
Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, permits juvenile court to transfer a juvenile under 16 years of age to a criminal court of competent jurisdiction to be tried as an adult for committing an act of terrorism. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-134 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 8.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 12, 2017
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