R Tennessee Senate · District 7 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Richard Briggs

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Session

Total votes

27,242

all sessions

Attendance

98%

399 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Lower than 77% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

26,931

voted in favor

Nay

222

voted against

Absent

399

missed votes

Total cast

27,242

across all sessions

Crossed party

164

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

SB 1932

Public Officials - As introduced, requires that certain personally identifying information of elected state and local public officials be maintained confidentially with limited exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 10, Chapter 7.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Mar 31, 2026

SB 2199

Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, enacts the "Regulatory Freedom Act of 2026." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

Yea

Passed

7–2

Mar 31, 2026

SB 2587

County Government - As introduced, creates a supplemental pay incentive program for local correctional officers who receive 40 hours or more of in-service training per calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 41.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 31, 2026

SB 1757

Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes, if a candidate changes treasurers and notifies the registry of election finance of the change, the candidate to continue to use print communication that includes the identification of the former treasurer until the print communication is exhausted. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 31, 2026

SB 2162

Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes a governing body to conduct an executive session for the purpose of interviewing applicants for employment as director-level staff of the body without providing public notice of such session. - Amends TCA Title 8.

Yea

Passed

6–2

Mar 31, 2026

SB 2428

Veterans - As introduced, requires local governmental entities to invite honorably discharged veterans who apply for employment or promotion to interview; requires preference be given to such veteran if the minimum qualifications and the skills, abilities, competencies, and knowledge of the veteran and any another applicant being interviewed for the position are equal; requires state and local application forms to provide the option for an applicant to declare veteran status. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 8, Chapter 30, Part 3 and Title 58, Chapter 2.

Yea

Failed

3–3

Mar 31, 2026

SB 777

Election Laws - As introduced, specifies that the reasonable period for candidates to remove signs, posters, or placards advocating their candidacy is two weeks after the election instead of three weeks. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Yea

Passed

6–3

Mar 31, 2026

SB 2591

County Government - As introduced, prohibits an employee of a local government from serving on the legislative body of the local government for which the employee works. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

5–3

Mar 31, 2026

SB 1045

Real Property - As introduced, prohibits the state or a local or municipal government from requiring a builder or developer of real property to pay for the building or development of infrastructure that is nonessential to the development, maintenance, or growth of the builder's development property. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 54 and Title 66.

Yea

Passed

8–1

Mar 31, 2026

SB 2581

County Boundaries - As introduced, increases from 90 days to 100 days the amount of time that a joint committee on county consolidation has following its receipt of a petition of consolidation to report its findings and recommendations on the feasibility of consolidation of the petitioning county with another county. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Mar 31, 2026