Sen. Steve Southerland
Total votes
21,653
all sessions
Attendance
92%
1,637 missed
Lower than 84% of chamber peers
With party
99%
of cast votes
Lower than 87% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 80% of chamber peers
Sponsored
1,724
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
4
assignments
21,653 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
21,391
voted in favor
Nay
223
voted against
Absent
1,637
missed votes
Total cast
21,653
across all sessions
Crossed party
184
votes against own party
This page
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SJR 451
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Amelia Van der Hengst, Valedictorian, South Haven Christian School -
Yea
Passed
34–0
Apr 21, 2025
HB 134
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires, beginning August 1, 2027, each LEA and public charter school to prohibit food or beverage items that contain Allura Red AC, which is Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 25956-17-6 and also known as Red 40, to be sold, offered for sale, or provided to students on school property through the school nutrition program provided by the LEA, public charter school, or a third party expressly authorized by the LEA or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
34–0
Apr 21, 2025
SB 602
Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluating the teacher; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to compensate the estate of a teacher who, on the teacher's death, was in the employ of the LEA or public charter school for the teacher's unused and accrued annual and sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased state employees are compensated under present law. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49.
Yea
Passed
34–0
Apr 21, 2025
SR 210
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sharon Valentina Cardenas Useche, Valedictorian, Overton High School -
Yea
Passed
34–0
Apr 21, 2025
SR 222
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sa'nya Harris, Salutatorian Sheffield High School -
Yea
Passed
34–0
Apr 21, 2025
HB 1434
Hardeman County - Subject to local approval, increases, from 85 percent to 92 percent, the assumed property tax collection rate in setting the general tax rate for the county general fund and creating a county budget that covers expenditures for the next appropriation year. - Amends Chapter 68 of the Private Acts of 1937; as amended.
Yea
Passed
33–0
Apr 21, 2025
SR 234
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lillie Cate Allen, Salutatorian, Hillsboro High School -
Yea
Passed
34–0
Apr 21, 2025
SR 148
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brenia Knox, Salutatorian, Whitehaven High School -
Yea
Passed
34–0
Apr 21, 2025
HJR 658
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Marisela Ventura Alonso, Salutatorian, Morristown-Hamblen High School East -
Yea
Passed
34–0
Apr 21, 2025
SR 205
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Khonsu Alalu El Buchanan-Holt, Salutatorian, KIPP Nashville Collegiate High School -
Yea
Passed
34–0
Apr 21, 2025
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