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

HB 925

Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, relieves the commissioner of labor and workforce development of responsibilities concerning mine rescue operations; deletes statutes establishing the mine rescue corps within the department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 59, Chapter 12.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Mar 6, 2019

SB 781

Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, relieves the commissioner of labor and workforce development of responsibilities concerning mine rescue operations; deletes statutes establishing the mine rescue corps within the department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 59, Chapter 12.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Mar 6, 2019

SB 634

Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires travel promoters to use trust accounts to avoid commingling their funds with customer funds that are held for disbursement for payment of travel services. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 62.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 5, 2019

HB 831

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

8–0

Mar 5, 2019

HB 316

Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "Barry Brady Act," which creates a presumption that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by certain cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Mar 5, 2019

SB 426

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

9–0

Mar 5, 2019

HB 967

Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, authorizes operators of crematory facilities who provide free services for the cremation of human remains to receive a refund of the permit fee paid for such services. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 2.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 5, 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

8–0

Mar 5, 2019

SB 1442

Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "Barry Brady Act," which creates a presumption that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by certain cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Mar 5, 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

7–0

Mar 5, 2019