D Tennessee House · District 53 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Jason Powell

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Session

Total votes

22,774

all sessions

Attendance

90%

2,372 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

98%

of cast votes

Higher than 85% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 87% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

20,329

voted in favor

Nay

2,018

voted against

Absent

2,372

missed votes

Total cast

22,774

across all sessions

Crossed party

240

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

HB 2643

Winchester - Subject to local approval, expands the board of public utilities' jurisdiction to wastewater treatment systems; requires the mayor to serve as a standing member of the board during the mayor's term; creates four-year terms for members; and makes various other changes. - Amends Chapter 34 of the Private Acts of 2019.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 15, 2026

SB 1225

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 14, 2026

HB 2272

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, changes present law concerning common ownership of entities involved in the alcoholic beverages industry. - Amends TCA Title 57.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 14, 2026

SB 2652

Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to promulgate rules to implement and administer a voluntary program for the promotion of meat and byproducts from livestock raised in Tennessee, which may be labeled with an appropriate statement that indicates the meat or byproduct is a Tennessee meat or byproduct. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 13, 2026

HB 2085

Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, creates the joint capital tourism board; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 67.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 13, 2026

SB 2032

Employees, Employers - As enacted, requires a public safety employer to provide an employee or prospective employee with reasonable access to the employee's or prospective employee's full employment record, including the results of any mental health evaluation or screening; makes certain other changes relative to employment by a public safety employer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 50; Title 62 and Title 68.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 9, 2026

SB 1398

Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, limits the authority of a special purpose corporation to negotiate and enter into PILOT agreements with the corporation's lessees, as delegated to it by a municipality, if certain written notice is not provided to certain chief executive officers of taxing jurisdictions; voids PILOT agreements entered into by the special purpose corporation if such notice is not provided. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 9, 2026

HB 1659

Public Records - As enacted, generally makes the addresses on a nominating petition for the office of judge, chancellor, district attorney general, and public defender confidential; clarifies that such addresses may be made open to public inspection upon the request of a candidate or law enforcement authority in anticipation of, or as part of, a contest of candidacy or contest of election. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 10, Chapter 7.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 8, 2026

HB 2616

Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes a governing body to conduct an executive session for the purpose of interviewing applicants for employment as director-level staff of the body without providing public notice of such session. - Amends TCA Title 8.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 8, 2026

SB 2219

Court Rules - As enacted, requires each juvenile court, through the juvenile court clerk or juvenile court staff, each month within the statewide juvenile case management system prescribed by the administrative office of the courts to report to the administrative office of the courts each new dependency and neglect case, including for each child named in the petition, certain information. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 8, 2026