R Tennessee Senate · District 7 On the 2026 ballot

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

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

SB 544

Public Health - As enacted, requires comprehensive stroke centers and primary stroke centers, and encourages other hospitals, to report data on individuals with confirmed stroke to the ETSU College of Public Health on a quarterly basis. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 1.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Feb 22, 2017

SB 384

Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires that driver licenses be printed in vertical format for persons under 21 years of age; authorizes licensees to replace vertical format license with horizontal one upon reaching 21 years of age for the cost of a duplicate license. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Feb 22, 2017

SB 150

Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, authorizes physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives who are advanced practice registered nurses to treat minors with sexually transmitted diseases to the full extent of the person's authority, including the authority to prescribe and dispense drugs relating to a sexually transmitted disease. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Feb 22, 2017

SB 924

Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, redefines "nonprofit organization" for purposes of qualifying to have an annual gaming event to include a 501(c)(3) organization that has been in continuous existence in this state for three years and is a dues paying member of a separate 501(c)(3) organization that has been in existence in this state for 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 21, 2017

SB 377

Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, requires that campaign funds be deposited into a financial institution insured by the FDIC or the national credit union administration that is authorized to do business in this state. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

Yea

Passed

8–1

Feb 21, 2017

SB 842

Public Records - As enacted, removes "addresses" from definition of personally identifying information in the general exception for records held by a governmental entity. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 21, 2017

SB 439

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates Hideaway of Arrington, the Barn at Sycamore Farms, and SouthCreek, all located in Williamson County, as premier type tourist resorts for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 21, 2017

SB 141

Comptroller, State - As enacted, requires any department receiving federal financial assistance to report certain notices of noncompliance from the federal government to the commissioner of finance and administration and the comptroller within five days. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 4, Part 1.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 21, 2017

SB 140

Comptroller, State - As enacted, removes requirement that the comptroller periodically conduct performance audits of state agencies authorized or required to act relative to the conservation of energy, the study and production of alternative sources of energy, and energy security; such agencies remain subject to performance audit for governmental entity review purposes. - Amends TCA Section 8-4-103.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 21, 2017

SB 848

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages for on premises consumption at a location in Davidson County. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 21, 2017