Sen. Richard Briggs
Total votes
27,004
all sessions
Attendance
99%
268 missed
With party
99%
of cast votes
Lower than 80% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
828
bills & resolutions
Higher than 82% of chamber peers
Committees
4
assignments
27,004 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
26,699
voted in favor
Nay
219
voted against
Absent
268
missed votes
Total cast
27,004
across all sessions
Crossed party
165
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 647
Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, authorizes community corrections officers in Claiborne County, Grainger County, Hancock County, Hawkins County, Jefferson County, and Union County who hold a valid Tennessee handgun permit to carry a handgun at all times and in all places in this state while in the course of employment and engaged in the actual discharge of official duties. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Yea
Passed
28–0
Apr 4, 2018
SB 1879
Planning, Public - As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding adoption of subdivision regulations and platting authority. - Amends TCA Title 13.
Yea
Passed
29–0
Apr 4, 2018
SB 1914
Forests and Forest Products - As enacted, requires designation of free-use areas where residents may remove downed and dead timber from state forests for their personal use under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 11, Chapter 4; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 43.
Yea
Passed
30–1
Apr 4, 2018
SB 1572
Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, clarifies definitions of "rule" and "policy" for rulemaking purposes and revises other administrative procedures. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.
Yea
Passed
31–0
Apr 4, 2018
SB 2196
Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to establish a student support collaborative to review and define the roles and responsibilities for school social workers, school counselors, school psychologists, and school nurses; requires the basic education program (BEP) review committee to analyze the addition of a component for school social workers to the BEP funding formula and include such analysis in its 2018 annual report. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 1.
Yea
Passed
30–0
Apr 4, 2018
SB 2049
Public Records - As enacted, makes confidential certain records of a food-based business incubation service provider created by a municipality. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.
Yea
Passed
31–0
Apr 4, 2018
HB 2304
Workers Compensation - As enacted, revises provisions governing attorneys' fees and costs in certain workers' compensation claims cases. - Amends TCA Section 50-6-102 and Section 50-6-226.
Yea
Passed
32–0
Apr 2, 2018
HB 2444
Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, extends from 30 days to 40 days the period of advance notice that licensed child-placing agencies and licensed clinical social workers must provide the department before increasing fees charged to prospective adoptive parents. - Amends TCA Title 36.
Yea
Passed
32–0
Apr 2, 2018
SB 1567
Sunset Laws - As enacted, reduces by one year the entity review period of the human rights commission by changing the entity termination date from June 30, 2021 to June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21 and Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2.
Yea
Passed
32–0
Apr 2, 2018
HJR 959
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lindsey Truelove, Valedictorian, Hampshire Unit School -
Yea
Passed
32–0
Apr 2, 2018
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