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 80% 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

166

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 2081

Auctions and Auctioneers - As enacted, creates the Tennessee Task Force on Auction Law Modernization. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 19.

Yea

Passed

30–0

Apr 18, 2018

SB 2591

Education - As enacted, creates the "Homeless Student Stability and Opportunity Gap Act." - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Apr 18, 2018

HB 1832

Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding the scheduling of controlled substances and their analogues and derivatives, including updated identifications of drugs categorized in Schedules I–V; authorizes sentence reduction credits for prisoners who successfully complete intensive substance use disorder treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2; Title 53 and Title 63.

Yea

Passed

27–2

Apr 18, 2018

HB 1832

Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding the scheduling of controlled substances and their analogues and derivatives, including updated identifications of drugs categorized in Schedules I–V; authorizes sentence reduction credits for prisoners who successfully complete intensive substance use disorder treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2; Title 53 and Title 63.

Yea

Passed

17–15

Apr 18, 2018

SB 2706

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates The Caverns in Grundy County and the South Jackson Civic Center in Tullahoma as a premier type tourist resorts for purposes of selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

Yea

Passed

27–2

Apr 18, 2018

HB 2645

Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $215,295,000. -

Yea

Passed

32–1

Apr 18, 2018

HB 1831

Controlled Substances - As enacted, makes various changes to the requirements for prescribing, dispensing, and reporting of opioids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2; Title 53 and Title 63.

Yea

Passed

30–1

Apr 18, 2018

HB 1832

Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding the scheduling of controlled substances and their analogues and derivatives, including updated identifications of drugs categorized in Schedules I–V; authorizes sentence reduction credits for prisoners who successfully complete intensive substance use disorder treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2; Title 53 and Title 63.

Yea

Passed

16–13

Apr 18, 2018

HB 601

Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, specifies that a property tax lien does not attach to an easement appurtenant upon property that is a servient estate or to an easement in gross that was assessed separately from the property by either the county assessor of property or the office of state assessed properties in the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 21; Title 26; Title 35; Title 40; Title 66 and Title 67.

Yea

Passed

30–0

Apr 18, 2018

HB 1344

Election Laws - As enacted, requires, if the county election commission has arranged for the use of a public school or a public charter school as a polling place for a regular November election, that the LEA or the public charter school be closed for instruction on the election day; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to choose to be open or closed for instruction on election days other than days on which a regular November election occurs. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

26–3

Apr 18, 2018