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R Tennessee Senate · District 9 · Former member

Sen. Mike Bell

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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
voted in favor
Nay
383
voted against
Absent
496
missed votes
Total recorded
17,150
across all sessions
Crossed party
270
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HB 1905
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires hospitals, clinics, and persons, including doctors and nurses, who are called upon to render aid to a person suffering from the effects of a fatal drug overdose to report the drug overdose to the appropriate chief of police or sheriff and district attorney general, to the extent allowed by state and federal law. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Yea
Passed
7–2
Mar 30, 2022
HB 1865
Education - As introduced, requires LEAs to offer high school students high school credit for a course in which the student is not enrolled but for which the student has satisfied the course requirements through an examination. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Mar 30, 2022
SB 1767
Business and Commerce - As introduced, restricts ability to sell, purchase, or possess products containing intoxicating cannabinoids derived from hemp to persons who are 21 years of age or older; requires retailers and wholesalers of products containing hemp-derived cannabinoids to be licensed; levies privilege tax at rate of 6.6 percent on wholesale sale of products containing hemp-derived cannabinoids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15; Title 43, Chapter 27 and Title 67.
Nay
Failed
3–6
Mar 30, 2022
HB 2633
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun does not align with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA from civil liability and adverse employment action for referring to a student using the pronoun aligned with the student's biological sex instead of the student's preferred pronoun. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
6–1
Mar 30, 2022
SB 2564
Municipal Government - As enacted, authorizes the council of a municipality with a modified city manager-council charter to, upon the adoption of an ordinance by a 2/3 vote of the entire membership of the council, fix the salaries of the mayor and the members of the council annually at the time the operating budget is adopted. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 32, Part 1.
Yea
Passed
30–0
Mar 30, 2022
SB 2019
Education, Higher - As enacted, revises various provisions governing the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC) and financial aid. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 30, 2022
SB 2498
Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the board to develop an Industry 4.0 diploma distinction and graduation pathway for high school students; revises certain requirements for students participating in work-based learning programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 30, 2022
SB 2158
Education - As enacted, prohibits an LEA or public charter school from knowingly entering into an agreement with an individual or entity that performs abortions, induces abortions, provides abortion referrals, or provides funding, advocacy, or other support for abortions. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
8–1
Mar 30, 2022
SB 1875
Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, authorizes capital outlay notes to be refunded with public building authority loans, subject to review by the comptroller; makes other revisions to provisions governing bonds and notes issued by local governments. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 21 and Section 12-10-116.
Yea
Passed
30–0
Mar 30, 2022
HB 2220
Coroners - As enacted, requires attending physician, chief medical officer, or medical examiner signing the medical certification of the cause of death of a military veteran to, prior to signing, review medical records, including records from the U.S. department of veterans affairs, if the deceased person is known to be a military veteran and if the physician, chief medical officer, or medical examiner is provided access to the records in order to determine if a service-connected disability was the principal or major contributory cause of death. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 5.
Yea
Passed
31–0
Mar 30, 2022
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