Total votes
17,150
all sessions
Attendance
97%
496 missed
Lower than 76% of chamber peers
With party
98%
of cast votes
Lower than 97% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 95% of chamber peers
Sponsored
1,032
bills & resolutions
Lower than 77% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
17,150 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
16,689
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Nay
383
voted against
Absent
496
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Total cast
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HB 2524
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, eliminates the criminal offenses of possession of a firearm or club with intent to go armed, possession of a deadly weapon other than a firearm with the intent to employ it during the commission of a dangerous offense, possession of a deadly weapon with the intent to employ it during the commission of any offense other than a dangerous offense, and possession of a weapon with intent to go armed in a park, playground, civic center, or other recreational building. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Yea
Passed
7–2
Apr 6, 2022
SB 2852
Public Utilities - As enacted, requires a utility system, upon request or application for a connection of utility service by a customer, to promptly provide the customer the connection cost. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 67.
Yea
Passed
29–0
Apr 6, 2022
SB 1884
Public Health - As enacted, removes TCA § 14-2-101, which prohibits COVID-19 vaccine mandates by governmental entities, schools, and local education agencies, and removes TCA § 14-1-101, which is the definitions to the Title 14 COVID-19 laws, from the application of the Title 14 termination date of July 1, 2023; effective July 1, 2023, deletes the 14-1-101 definitions except for those that relate to the prohibition on COVID-19 vaccine mandates for governmental entities. - Amends TCA Title 14 and Title 68.
Yea
Passed
22–4
Apr 6, 2022
HB 2455
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, establishes qualifications necessary to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
29–0
Apr 6, 2022
HB 2043
Controlled Substances - As enacted, adds tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of tianeptine, and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or preparation thereof that is substantially chemically equivalent or identical with tianeptine, as a schedule II controlled substance; specifies that a violation of the offense of knowingly possessing or casually exchanging a controlled substance (unless the substance was obtained directly from, or pursuant to, a valid prescription or order of a practitioner while acting in the course of professional practice), will be a Class A misdemeanor with respect to a person knowingly possessing or casually exchanging, tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or other preparation thereof that is substantially chemically equivalent or identical with tianeptine. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 6, 2022
SB 2796
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, classifies all misdemeanor offenses under the Tennessee Personal and Commercial Computer Act of 2003 as Class A misdemeanor offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 6.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 6, 2022
SB 2741
Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, expands the information required to be provided in writing to foster parents by the department to include all information available to the department regarding the child's education status, mental health history and status, behavioral history, and physical disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 37.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 6, 2022
HB 1834
DUI Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Ethan's, Hailey's, and Bentley's Law," which requires a sentencing court to order a defendant who has been convicted of vehicular homicide or aggravated vehicular homicide due to intoxication and in which the victim of the offense was the parent of a minor child to pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim's children until each child reaches 18 years of age and has graduated from high school. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Apr 6, 2022
HB 978
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class C misdemeanor offense, punishable by a $50 fine and community service work, for camping along a controlled-access highway or entrance or exit ramp; expands Equal Access to Public Property Act of 2012, under which it is a Class E felony offense for a person to camp on property owned by the state knowing that the area on which the camping occurs is not specifically designated for use as a camping area, to apply the offense of unauthorized camping to all public property. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 8.
Yea
Passed
7–2
Apr 6, 2022
HB 1960
Public Health - As enacted, removes TCA § 14-2-101, which prohibits COVID-19 vaccine mandates by governmental entities, schools, and local education agencies, and removes TCA § 14-1-101, which is the definitions to the Title 14 COVID-19 laws, from the application of the Title 14 termination date of July 1, 2023; effective July 1, 2023, deletes the 14-1-101 definitions except for those that relate to the prohibition on COVID-19 vaccine mandates for governmental entities. - Amends TCA Title 14 and Title 68.
Yea
Passed
22–4
Apr 6, 2022
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