R Tennessee Senate · District 9 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Steve Southerland

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Session

Total votes

24,548

all sessions

Attendance

93%

1,705 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Lower than 83% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 80% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

24,256

voted in favor

Nay

253

voted against

Absent

1,705

missed votes

Total recorded

24,548

across all sessions

Crossed party

206

votes against own party

Matching

24,548

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 144

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the energy efficient schools council to June 30, 2023; requires the council and the department of education to appear before sunset review committee in 2019 to discuss progress made in addressing findings in its 2018 audit. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 17.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 18, 2019

SB 1197

Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires a board of education to allow a student who is the dependent child of a member of the United States armed forces and who does not reside within the boundaries of the school district to enroll in a public school within the school district under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 18, 2019

HB 233

Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor of possessing, owning, selling, transferring, or manufacturing cock fighting paraphernalia with the intent that the paraphernalia be used in promoting, facilitating, training for, or furthering cock fighting. - Amends TCA Title 39. Against party

Nay

Passed

22–6

Mar 18, 2019

SB 1166

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, rewrites the criminal offense of female genital mutilation; extends the statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions or civil actions for female genital mutilation. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 18, 2019

SJR 290

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Coble Brooks, Salutatorian, Hampshire Unit School -

Yea

Passed

31–0

Mar 18, 2019

HB 850

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates any facility on the campus of a public institution of higher education that is designed and used for school-sanctioned sporting events as a sports authority facility for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. - Amends TCA Title 57. Against party

Nay

Passed

26–4

Mar 18, 2019

SB 1097

Civil Procedure - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Public Participation Act," which creates a process by which a person may petition a court to dismiss a legal action that is based on the person's exercise of the right to free speech, right to petition, or right of association. - Amends TCA Title 20.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 18, 2019

SB 264

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises offense regarding destruction or interference with utility lines, fixtures or appliances, or property utilized by railroads to apply to certain activities involving critical infrastructure. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-411.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 18, 2019

SJR 295

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Abigail Golden, Top Ten Senior, Hampshire Unit School -

Yea

Passed

31–0

Mar 18, 2019

SB 557

Annexation - As enacted, specifies that property owners, rather than just residents, of a territory proposed for annexation may vote in the referendum on the question of annexation; limits provision for property owners to vote based on ownership to no more than two persons per an individual tract of property, regardless of number of owners of the property. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51, Part 1.

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 18, 2019