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 cast

24,548

across all sessions

Crossed party

206

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 972

Health Care - As enacted, permits advanced practice nurses and physician assistants who are prescribers at community mental health centers to arrange for chart review by and site visits with certain collaborating physicians by means of HIPAA-compliant electronic information systems. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 19; Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 7.

Yea

Passed

28–0

Mar 11, 2019

HB 463

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee council on autism spectrum disorder to June 30, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 27.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

SB 646

Professions and Occupations - As enacted, deletes redundant surety bond requirement for persons who practice animal massage therapy. - Amends TCA Section 63-12-203.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

HB 345

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, extends the hours during which a manufacturer may sell its product at retail on Sunday on its licensed premises from 12:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m.; deletes repeal provision, thereby clarifying that a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages may, on and after July 1, 2019, continue to have a direct or indirect interest in an establishment with a license authorizing consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises if the interest is held in an irrevocable trust. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-202 and Section 57-4-110.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

SJR 209

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Decosta Jenkins, Board of Trustees of the University of Tennessee -

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

SB 1497

Traffic Safety - As enacted, extends the "Slow Poke Law," which prohibits the operation of vehicles in the left lane, except for passing and other purposes, to interstates and multilane divided highways with two or more lanes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8, Part 2.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

HB 732

Motor Vehicles - As enacted, expands the authorization to authorize, regulate, and control the commercial use of pedal carriages and rickshaws to any municipality or metropolitan government in the state and not just home rule municipalities and metropolitan governments. - Amends TCA Section 55-26-102.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

HB 376

Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, authorizes a public utility to request, and the Tennessee public utility commission to authorize, a mechanism to recover the operational expenses, capital costs, or both, related to replacement of or upgrades to usage measurement devices if found by the commission to be in the public interest. - Amends TCA Title 65.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

SJR 208

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Alan D. Wilson, Board of Trustees of the University of Tennessee -

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

HB 1126

Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, clarifies that payments of fees to a trade or professional association exempt from income tax under § 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code do not constitute an unfair trade practice in the business of insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 8.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019