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

This page

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 1359

Child Abuse - As enacted, creates the Class A misdemeanor and Class E felony offenses of withdrawing, transferring, or altering a child's school enrollment with intent to hinder an active child abuse or child neglect investigation. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

28–0

Mar 11, 2019

SB 1494

Special License Plates - As enacted, specifies the redesign for the Bosnia Veteran license plate. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-253.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

HB 318

Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, authorizes executive director of the Tennessee wildlife resources agency to issue various types of special permits, up to five in a license year, to nonprofit wildlife conservation organizations, rather than to issue only special elk-take permits to such organizations. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 2, Part 2.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

HJR 235

Memorials, Death - Kenneth Melton -

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

SJR 204

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Confirms the appointment of persons to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga advisory board. -

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

SJR 192

Memorials, Congress - Expresses support for the enactment of legislation that requires all board committee meetings of the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors to be open to the public. -

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

HB 146

Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, removes the requirement that a property and casualty insurer that has a specified medical expense benefit payable without regard to fault, and that does not permit assignment of the benefit, establish a process to disburse funds in the names of the insured and the healthcare provider as joint payees. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

SB 1371

Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, grants a retirement allowance to a surviving spouse who is a designated beneficiary if the deceased TCRS member is vested instead of requiring that the member have 10 years of creditable service. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-109.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

HJR 236

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Eleanor Baugh Hardin, 100th birthday -

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019

HB 1177

Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, grants a retirement allowance to a surviving spouse who is a designated beneficiary if the deceased TCRS member is vested instead of requiring that the member have 10 years of creditable service. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-109.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Mar 11, 2019