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Sen. Richard Briggs

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Session

Total votes

24,413

all sessions

Attendance

99%

268 missed

Lower than 84% of chamber peers

With party

99%

of cast votes

Lower than 81% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

24,137

voted in favor

Nay

190

voted against

Absent

268

missed votes

Total cast

24,413

across all sessions

Crossed party

145

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

SB 925

Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes certain members of a board of public utilities to serve as a member of a county election commission; prescribes the process for certifying new voting systems for use in this state. - Amends TCA Section 2-1-112 and Section 2-9-117.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Mar 7, 2017

SB 1318

Property Assessors - As enacted, clarifies that property assessors may retain electronic or digital copies of property tax exemption applications to comply with existing retention requirement. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-212.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 7, 2017

SB 389

Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes the City of McMinnville, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 2.5 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in McMinnville; the ordinance must set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax; requires that all proceeds received by the municipality from the tax be used for tourism development. - Amends amend TCA Section 67-4-1425.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 7, 2017

SB 262

Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits a local government from adopting or enforcing any ordinance, regulation, resolution, policy, or any other legal requirement that regulates or imposes a requirement upon an employer pertaining to employee scheduling, except when necessary to avoid creating a public or private nuisance. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51.

Yea

Passed

6–1

Mar 7, 2017

SB 964

Natural Disasters - As enacted, authorizes a county highway department to perform work as part of a municipality or county's plan for providing assistance for natural disaster relief to private residential property. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-1601.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 7, 2017

SJR 107

General Assembly, Directed Studies - Requests the Department of Education and the State Board of Education to study and report on the best practices of other states relative to funding of programs focused on career preparation and postsecondary opportunities. -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 6, 2017

HJR 144

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Mary Jane Kirkham, Central High School Teacher of the Year -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 6, 2017

SB 10

Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, creates exemptions from sales tax, registration fee, and motor vehicle privilege tax, for any motor vehicle sold to a veteran or service member who has a service-connected disability and who is eligible for a United States department of veterans affairs automobile grant under the Disabled Veterans' and Servicemen's Automobile Assistance Act of 1970; limits sales and use tax exemption to portion of price that is in excess of the amount of the grant received. - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 6, 2017

SB 101

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee community resource board eight years to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 41, Chapter 10.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 6, 2017

SB 108

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee regulatory authority four years to June 30, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 65, Chapter 1, Part 1.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 6, 2017