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

Tally

Date

HB 2531

Taxes, Sales - As enacted, specifies that any entity that qualifies for exemption as a spallation neutron source facility will not be eligible for a sales and use tax exemption with regard to any industrial machinery that is used in operation of a qualified data center or used primarily for research and development; provides exception for a leadership computing facility that is funded by the United States government or instrumentality thereof, not funded with any state funds, and located at a national laboratory. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 13 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 23, 2018

HJR 1222

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Margaret Maxwell, Valedictorian, Sheffield High School -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 23, 2018

SB 1494

Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding eligible persons on referral list for services. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Apr 23, 2018

HJR 1022

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Hie, Tennessee Public Utility Commission -

Yea

Passed

33–0

Apr 23, 2018

HJR 1232

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sarah Thomas, Valedictorian, Zion Christian Academy -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 23, 2018

SB 2364

TennCare - As enacted, excludes anxiety episodes and nonemergent depression episodes from episodes of care in any payment reform initiative involved with medical assistance. - Amends TCA Title 71.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 23, 2018

SB 1877

Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, requires comptroller to audit use of civil asset forfeiture proceeds by local law enforcement agencies and judicial district drug task forces during regular audit of local government; requires department of safety to publish uses of forfeiture proceeds by department and results of comptroller's audit on department's website. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4 and Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 23, 2018

SB 1842

Education, Higher - As enacted, transfers operation of the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute from the Institute's board to the Institute for Public Service of the University of Tennessee; renames the institute to be the Tennessee Foreign Language Center; makes other related changes, - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Apr 23, 2018

HJR 1224

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Katerion Pender, Class President, Sheffield High School -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 23, 2018

HJR 1240

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Logan S. Mitchell, Top Ten Senior, Cherokee High School -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Apr 23, 2018