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 recorded

27,242

across all sessions

Crossed party

164

votes against own party

Matching

27,242

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 1224

Public Contracts - As enacted, adds "businesses owned by persons with disabilities" to the Tennessee Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned and Small Business Procurement and Contracting Act; requires that the annual report made by the chief procurement officer concerning the awarding of purchases to minority-owned business, woman-owned business, service-disabled veteran-owned business, or small business and the total value of awards made also include the total dollar amount of purchases awarded to all businesses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Apr 5, 2017

SB 904

Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, clarifies definition of "agriculture" for purposes of classification and assessment of property tax. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 43 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Apr 5, 2017

SB 214

Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2017." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5 and Chapter 854 of the Public Acts of 2016.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Apr 5, 2017

SB 330

Wine & Wineries - As enacted, authorizes wineries and farm wineries to purchase or import finished wine product and use or dispose of the finished wine product in any manner otherwise authorized for the use or disposal of wine manufactured, bottled, or produced by a winery or farm winery; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-207.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Apr 5, 2017

SB 568

Annexation - As enacted, deletes the limitation allowing non-contiguous annexation by resolution to occur only in a county having a population according to the most recent decennial census that is greater than 44.5 percent and 50,000 of its population in the preceding decennial census. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51, Part 1.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Apr 5, 2017

SB 940

Equalization Board - As introduced, deletes an outdated cross reference to a repealed statute. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Apr 5, 2017

SB 1160

Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, creates "Tennessee Rural Mayors Day" to be observed on the first Monday of October each year. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Apr 5, 2017

SB 1089

Election Laws - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Freedom of Speech Act." - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 66.

Absent

Passed

7–1

Apr 5, 2017

SB 907

Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the classification of property for tax purposes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Apr 5, 2017

SB 489

Medical Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Kenneth and Madge Tullis, MD, Suicide Prevention Training Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Apr 5, 2017