Total votes
6,812
all sessions
Attendance
41%
9,675 missed
Lower than 84% of chamber peers
With party
98%
of cast votes
Higher than 88% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 91% of chamber peers
Sponsored
116
bills & resolutions
Lower than 91% of chamber peers
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0
assignments
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6,638
voted in favor
Nay
138
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Absent
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Description
Vote
Result
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Date
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
75–0
May 2, 2019
SB 559
Adoption - As enacted, provides that if a court appoints a guardian ad litem in a pending adoption proceeding, there will be a rebuttable presumption that the guardian ad litem's fees will be divided equally between the parties, excluding the person being adopted; specifies that if a party is found by the court to be indigent, the guardian ad litem will charge that party's portion of the fees to the state through the administrative office of the courts claims and payment system, and bill the remaining parties at the same hourly rate as paid by the administrative office of the courts claims and payment system. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 36 and Title 37.
Yea
Passed
64–0
May 2, 2019
SB 557
Annexation - As enacted, specifies that property owners, rather than just residents, of a territory proposed for annexation may vote in the referendum on the question of annexation; limits provision for property owners to vote based on ownership to no more than two persons per an individual tract of property, regardless of number of owners of the property. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51, Part 1.
Yea
Passed
72–2
May 2, 2019
HB 624
Sexual Offenders - As enacted, revises provisions governing the circumstances under which the TBI is required to remove a sexual offender's name from the registry; adds successful completions of judicial diversion for certain offenses to such circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 40, Chapter 39.
Yea
Passed
64–9
May 2, 2019
SB 1395
Firefighters - As enacted, creates a program managed by the commissioner of commerce and insurance to annually award grants to volunteer fire departments for the purchase of firefighting equipment or to meet local match requirements for federal grants for the purchase of firefighting equipment and training. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102.
Yea
Passed
76–0
May 2, 2019
SB 1428
TennCare - As enacted, directs the governor, through the commissioner of finance and administration, to submit a waiver amendment to the centers for medicare and medicaid services to provide TennCare II funding by means of a block grant indexed for inflation and population growth. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.
Yea
Passed
50–16
May 2, 2019
HB 632
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the state board of education to award a teacher five additional professional development points if the teacher's overall evaluation demonstrates an overall performance effectiveness level of "above expectations" or "significantly above expectations" and the evaluation is based on the teacher's performance while employed at a school that is on the priority list or the focus list. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
74–0
May 2, 2019
HB 419
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Right to Shop Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
Yea
Passed
64–0
May 2, 2019
HB 228
Public Health - As enacted, rewrites provisions governing limited pilot project for certification of a training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center; creates limited pilot project for purpose of determining the impact of such training centers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.
Yea
Passed
74–0
May 2, 2019
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