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Voted to pass HB 2569. It lowers from 65 to 50 the age at which a hospital must offer a patient a flu shot before sending them home, each year from October through the start of March. It also requires hospitals to offer those patients a pneumonia shot. The Tennessee House passed it 62-22, and it became law.

April 7, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 2070. The Tennessee Energy Freedom Act blocks damages or court orders for coal, oil, or gas emissions unless federal environmental law was broken, and limits outside claims to products shipped there. It applies to past and out-of-state conduct, and a company reporting under ten percent of a China-India baseline is treated as having zero emissions. The Tennessee House passed it 69-18, and it became law.

March 12, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 670. It sorts isolated wetlands by quality and allows changes without permits, notice, or replacement work for any artificial wetland, low-quality sites up to one acre, and moderate sites up to one-quarter acre if pollution controls apply. Larger low- or moderate-quality sites up to two acres use one standard permit without some buffer, combined-impact, or protection rules; replacement is capped at 1:1 or 2:1. The Tennessee House passed it 71-21, and it became law.

April 21, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 612. It cuts what a permit applicant must do to make up for harm to wetlands and streams. When the only thing keeping a project from a general permit is how much wetland or stream it affects, the state must waive the make-up work for that amount. The Tennessee House passed it 74-20, and it became law.

April 10, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass SB 880. It bars state agencies from setting a numeric limit on a pollutant or contaminant in drinking water, air, waste or a cleanup site unless the best available science shows a direct link to bodily harm in people. A rule that does not meet that test cannot be adopted. The test applies only to new state rules that are stricter than federal rules or cover something federal rules do not, and it does not apply to the health or agriculture departments or to emergency rules. The Tennessee House passed it 74-22, and it became law.

April 7, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass SB 674. It gives the state alone the power to set the terms and conditions of employment. Cities and counties may no longer pass or enforce any rule on pay, hours or working conditions that goes beyond state or federal law, unless a state law lets them. The Tennessee House passed it 70-22, and it became law.

February 23, 2026Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted to pass SB 674. It gives the state alone the power to set the terms and conditions of employment. Cities and counties may no longer pass or enforce any rule on pay, hours or working conditions that goes beyond state or federal law, unless a state law lets them. The Tennessee House passed it 70-22, and it became law.

February 23, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted to pass HB 2616. It lets a local governing body interview candidates for director-level jobs behind closed doors, with no public notice of that session. The body still may not decide or debate the hire in private, and the minutes must name everyone who attended except the applicants. The Tennessee House passed it 61-24, and it became law.

April 14, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted to pass HB 1971. It narrows a law that let people ask a court to declare a government action unlawful. The claim now reaches only cities, counties and other local bodies, and can no longer be used to challenge a state law. Other routes to raise constitutional claims are left in place. The Tennessee House passed it 56-38, and it became law.

March 30, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted to accept the final version of HB 132. It lets the General Assembly end a state of emergency that the governor has declared or extended, by passing a joint resolution in both chambers. It applies to emergencies declared after the law took effect. The Tennessee House agreed it 72-23, and it became law.

April 22, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted to pass HB 22. It requires every city, county, school district and other local governing body to set aside time for public comment at each public meeting. People may speak on items on the agenda and on any other matter the body has power over. The Tennessee House passed it 60-30 (recorded 60-29 in the LegiScan roll, which omits one no vote), and it became law.

March 10, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted to pass HB 618. It bars a person who holds a local elected office from holding a second elected office in Tennessee at the same time. Anyone holding two offices when the law took effect could keep them until those terms ran out, and party executive committee seats do not count. The Tennessee House passed it 61-27 (recorded 61-26 in the LegiScan roll, which omits one no vote). The Senate later changed when the ban starts, and the bill became law.

February 27, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted to pass HB 1060. It raises from $1 to $3 the fee that a county clerk or other selling agent may add to each hunting or fishing license, permit, tag or registration. The Tennessee House passed it 59-23, and it became law.

April 3, 2025Opposes Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted to pass SB 694. It raises the top interest rate a consumer loan company may charge on a loan of $100 or more, from 30 percent a year to 36 percent. It also raises a separate fee cap from 10 percent to 12.5 percent. The Tennessee House passed it 61-26, and it became law.

March 17, 2025Opposes Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted to accept the final version of HB 2502. It applies Tennessee sales tax to the service of sending money from this state to a place outside the United States through a licensed money transmitter. The Tennessee House agreed it 70-19, and it became law.

April 22, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted to accept the final version of HB 1709. It requires a person to be a United States citizen or a qualified immigrant to get a range of state licenses, certificates and permits, such as a court reporter license. The Tennessee House agreed it 70-21, and it became law.

April 22, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted to pass SB 1587. It makes it a crime for an employer to knowingly let a person who is in the country illegally drive a commercial vehicle in Tennessee, and a crime for that person to drive one. The Tennessee House passed it 73-20, and it became law.

April 21, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 1915. Counties and cities must verify that every public-benefit applicant age 18 or older is a United States citizen or legally present, and add a certification notice after the first form reprint or phone update after July 1, 2026. A final failed check ends recurring benefits, but a pending check alone cannot delay them. Agencies must also report people found not lawfully present to the state's centralized immigration enforcement division, and the attorney general may investigate local governments and withhold their state funds. The Tennessee House passed it 73-21, and it became law.

April 21, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted to pass HB 2219. It requires every county sheriff to sign a deal with federal immigration agents under a federal program called 287(g), which lets local officers do some federal immigration work. The sheriff does not need the county's approval, and the state can hold back money from a county that does not sign. The Tennessee House passed it 71-25, and it became law.

April 20, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted to pass HB 2018. It requires a sheriff's department already working under a federal 287(g) agreement to accept and honor any immigration detainer it receives. That means holding the person for up to 48 hours beyond when they would otherwise be released, not counting weekends and holidays. The Tennessee House passed it 72-23, and it became law.

April 6, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted to pass SB 1464. It requires state agencies and officials to keep secret the names of officers taking part in federal immigration enforcement in Tennessee. That information is closed to public records requests. The Tennessee House passed it 70-19, and it became law.

March 26, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted to pass HB 1705. Starting in July 2026 it bars any state or local government employer in Tennessee, including school districts, from hiring a person without first checking their work authorization through the federal E-Verify system. The Tennessee House passed it 73-21, and it became law.

March 16, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted to pass HB 1704. It makes it a crime for a person 18 or older with a final federal removal order to stay in Tennessee more than 90 days after that order. The charge is a Class A misdemeanor, and a court must pause the case while the person is still pursuing federal appeals. The Tennessee House passed it 73-22, and it became law.

March 16, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted to pass SB 392. It creates the crime of human smuggling. A person commits it by moving, hiding or sheltering someone they know is in the country illegally, when they do so for money or other financial gain. The Tennessee House passed it 73-22, and it became law.

April 22, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted to pass SB 227. It lets a charity that houses someone it knows is in the country illegally be sued for loss, injury or death caused by a crime that person commits while living there. The charity is liable only if its own conduct was careless or worse. The Tennessee House passed it 70-23, and it became law.

April 16, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted to pass SB 750. It requires the state's immigration enforcement division to report to the legislature by July 2026 on crime it links to people in the country illegally, including an assessment of criminal enterprises and of threats. The Tennessee House passed it 75-20, and it became law.

April 15, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted for House Bill 749. Tennessee rejects an out-of-state license issued only to people illegally in the country when its markings differ from licenses for citizens and legal residents; driving with one is a Class B misdemeanor, a lower-level crime. The safety department must publish and keep a list of these license types by December 1, 2025. The Tennessee House passed it 68-21, and it became law.

April 3, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted to pass SB 6002. It creates a new immigration enforcement office inside the state safety department, run by an officer the governor picks. That officer directs how state and local police work with federal immigration agents, hands out money from a new grant fund, and runs the state's part in federal programs. The Tennessee House passed it 72-22 (recorded 72-21 in the LegiScan roll, which omits one no vote), and it became law.

January 30, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted to pass SB 1667. It bars the state and county clerks from registering a vehicle for the first time unless the owner shows proof of insurance or other financial responsibility. The Tennessee House passed it 68-22, and it became law.

April 22, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass HB 1668. It creates a crime often called jugging. A person breaks the law by following someone along the same route from a store, bank or cash machine, carrying two or more break-in tools, and meaning to steal that person's cash. The Tennessee House passed it 71-21, and it became law.

April 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass SB 1840. It gives prosecutors ten years from the date of the offense to bring a vehicular homicide case, for offenses committed on or after July 1, 2026. The Tennessee House passed it 58-30, and it became law.

April 8, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass SB 218. It sets a presumption that a person charged with a felony that involved a gun, or that seriously hurt or killed someone, should not be released on their own promise to appear. A judge who finds the presumption is overcome must say why. The Tennessee House passed it 65-25, and it became law.

March 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass HB 120. It creates the crime of deliberately blocking a member of the state division of protective services from entering, leaving or moving around a location. The division covers the highway patrol, commissioned homeland security officers, and officers supporting their work. The Tennessee House passed it 73-20 (recorded 73-19 in the LegiScan roll, which omits one no vote), and it became law.

March 10, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass SB 1788. It bars a city or county from moving a homeless person to another jurisdiction unless the receiving jurisdiction agrees in writing, and unless the move is part of a program to reunite the person with a place they have real ties to. The Tennessee House passed it 76-20, and it became law.

April 6, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to accept the final version of HB 1886. It requires every school district and public charter school to adopt an internet acceptable use policy, with internet safety lessons built into what students are taught. The Tennessee House agreed it 69-19, and it became law.

April 22, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass SB 2087. When a class has to be cleared because a student is violent, aggressive or severely disruptive, the principal must tell the parent or guardian of every student who was in the room. The Tennessee House passed it 57-32, and it became law.

April 14, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 2348. High schools with 750 to 1,500 students need a full-time endorsed library specialist; schools below 750 need a part-time specialist or teacher coordinator, and staff must supervise an open library when no specialist is there. An advanced media-and-technology degree must count toward the specialist endorsement. The Tennessee House passed it 70-24, and it became law.

April 14, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass SB 2441. It requires the state to step in when a virtual school keeps failing, up to closing it. That applies when the school lands on the priority list, or shows student growth far below expectations three years running. The Tennessee House passed it 69-21, and it became law.

April 13, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass SB 690. It requires a school district to let a virtual school student play sports at one of its schools, in cases where the athletic association that school belongs to allows virtual students to take part. The Tennessee House passed it 73-22, and it became law.

March 27, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass SB 1747. It makes it a crime to recklessly fire a gun into the air, the ground, water or a nearby object at a public gathering or event where at least 25 people are present. The charge is a Class A misdemeanor, and officers acting in the line of duty are exempt. The Tennessee House passed it 63-18, and it became law.

April 22, 2026Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass SB 2459. It bars the children's services department from asking foster parents how many guns they own or what kind, or asking to see them. The department may still ask whether guns are in the home and whether they are stored safely. The Tennessee House passed it 72-23, and it became law.

April 15, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted to pass SB 350. It bars a landlord from stopping a renter from having, carrying or storing a gun in their own home or in their car in the tenant parking area, and while going to and from those places. The Tennessee House passed it 73-21, and it became law.

March 9, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 1360. It widens lawsuit protections from guns to listed weapons, armor, magazines, silencers, rapid-fire devices, sights, and accessories; lawful sales alone are not public nuisances, conspiracies, careless sales, or illegal business practices. Strong proof is required for careless sales and outside judgments, with triple damages and fees for failed enforcement, and local gun-rule control is further limited. The Tennessee House passed it 72-20, and it became law.

April 15, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Voted to pass SB 2412. It lets the state attorney general sue to enforce Tennessee's rules on abortion pills. The fine is $10,000 for each knowing violation, and $1 million if a court finds someone was badly hurt or died. Each person given the drug counts as a separate violation. The Tennessee House passed it 74-20, and it became law.

April 16, 2026Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass HB 1784. It sets January 22 of each year as Sanctity of Life Day in Tennessee. The law says the day is to renew the state's commitment to protect the sanctity of life and to honor unborn children lost to legal abortion. The Tennessee House passed it 69-22, and it became law.

March 30, 2026Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass SB 1004. It spells out what counts as a serious risk of lasting harm to a major bodily function under Tennessee's criminal abortion law. It names conditions that qualify, such as severe preeclampsia, an infection that could rupture the uterus, and water breaking too early. It also says no mental health condition counts. The Tennessee House passed it 71-18, and it became law.

April 16, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass SB 1858. When a court finds a fault in a Tennessee redistricting plan, it must now give the legislature 90 days to fix it instead of 15. The act also lets these cases be filed in any county and has the state supreme court pick a three-judge panel with one judge from each grand division. The Tennessee House passed it 76-20, and it became law.

April 14, 2026Opposes Election Integrity

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Voted to pass SB 1619. It closes the opening that let election offices take private money with approval from the legislative speakers or the secretary of state, so that route is gone. It also requires an election administrator to tell a person why a registration was rejected, and keeps purged registration files open to the public for two years. The Tennessee House passed it 72-23, and it became law.

April 2, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass SB 626. It lets the state elections coordinator give a county more time to finish counting provisional ballots when the county cannot meet the deadline, up to the third Monday after the election. The Tennessee House passed it 72-22, and it became law.

April 16, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to adopt the compromise version of SB 468. It sets what sex, male and female mean in state law, and keeps some single-sex spaces separate on that basis. Those spaces are prisons, juvenile detention centers, public colleges, and shelters for people fleeing domestic violence. The Tennessee House adopted it 71-18, and it became law.

April 22, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 1665. It widens Tennessee's school pronoun law to cover honorifics such as Mr. or Ms. as well as pronouns. A school employee cannot be required to use a student's or a colleague's preferred pronoun or honorific when it does not match the sex on their record. The Tennessee House passed it 70-18, and it became law.

April 21, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 1713. Starting January 1, 2027, leaders of state and local governments and public colleges must certify yearly to the comptroller that they used no diversity, equity, or inclusion preference. The attorney general may investigate claims that a state office broke the ban. The Tennessee House passed it 66-20, and it became law.

April 21, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the final version of HB 754. It makes gender clinics report every gender transition procedure to the state health department, including the patient's age, sex and home state, the drugs and doses used, and the name and contact details of the provider who prescribed them. It also bars cities and counties from banning therapy aimed at a minor's gender identity. The Tennessee House agreed it 73-23, and it became law.

April 15, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 2031. It lets a person sue a health care provider for an injury caused by a medical procedure that was done to help them live as a gender different from their sex, but only if they, or their parent when they were a minor, agreed to it partly or wholly because the provider coerced them. The Tennessee House passed it 72-19, and it became law.

April 2, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 2222. It lets someone sue a person who paid a protester to show up, and make that payer cover damage the protester caused. It applies when the protester's conduct fits crimes such as rioting, disorderly conduct, blocking a road, or harassment. The Tennessee House passed it 71-20, and it became law.

March 26, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 1665. It bars health insurers and similar payers from requiring or asking a provider to put certain questions to a minor, such as whether the minor feels normal in their body or identifies as a gender different from their sex. Payers may not tie payment, credentialing or network participation to asking them. The Tennessee House passed it 72-21, and it became law.

March 16, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 1084. The Dismantling DEI Departments Act bars state and local governments and public colleges from diversity, equity, or inclusion preferences and offices, and cancels conflicting policies. Exceptions protect federal funding, demographic public-health and medical work, disease prevention, and equal outreach without quotas or preferences. The Tennessee House passed it 72-25, and it became law.

April 22, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 622. It bars county and city governments from using race, ethnicity, sex, age or a similar trait to make a hiring or job decision. Those choices must rest on merit, skills, veteran status, or rules about who is legally eligible. The law lists a few exceptions. The Tennessee House passed it 73-24, and it became law.

April 17, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 1034. It adds a city or county government seal to the list of memorials the state's heritage law protects, when the seal carries imagery of a historic conflict, event, figure or organization. Protected memorials cannot be removed or changed without state permission. The Tennessee House passed it 70-24, and it became law.

April 16, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 910. It shuts down the Tennessee Human Rights Commission at the end of June 2025 and moves its work to a new civil rights enforcement division in the attorney general's office. The commission handled complaints about discrimination in jobs, housing and public places. The Tennessee House passed it 73-23, and it became law.

April 16, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 376. It bars four-year colleges in Tennessee from treating people differently by race, color, ethnicity or national origin, and says that includes differences that come from affirmative action. In practice it ends race-conscious admissions and programs at those schools. The Tennessee House passed it 73-22, and it became law.

April 10, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 955. The Medical Ethics Defense Act lets a health care provider, and a hospital or clinic, refuse to take part in care that goes against their stated ethical, moral or religious beliefs. Extra cost or burden this puts on another provider is not a defense against the new protection. The Tennessee House passed it 71-24, and it became law.

April 7, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the final version of HB 1237. It bars state boards from keeping anyone off because of race, color, ethnicity or national origin. It also bars race-based rules for who sits on a board, naming affirmative action, racial preferences and racial quotas. The Tennessee House agreed it 73-22, and it became law.

April 7, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass House Bill 7002. House Bill 7002 dealt with when Tennessee may redraw its congressional districts. State law had barred the General Assembly from changing those districts between the federal counts that happen once every ten years. The act removes that bar, so lawmakers may redraw the congressional map at any time. The Tennessee House passed it 66-24, and it became law as Public Chapter 1.

May 7, 2026

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Voted to pass HB 1332. It lowers the age to apply for a handgun carry permit from 21 to 18. It also tightens who may get an enhanced permit: an applicant is turned down if they have any conviction for driving under the influence in the past five years, or two or more in the past ten. The Tennessee House passed it 71-21, and it became law.

April 14, 2025

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Voted against the House rewrite of Senate Bill 336. It restores voting rights after a felony without requiring all court costs, but requires twelve months of following every child-support order, including overdue-payment orders. The Tennessee House passed it 64-24, the Senate agreed, and it became law.

March 9, 2026

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Voted against SB 799. It requires statewide political parties to pick their candidates in primary elections for every partisan office on the August or November ballot. A county where a party used some other method in 2022 or 2024 may keep doing so for most offices. The Tennessee House passed it 60-25, and it became law.

April 14, 2025

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Voted against SB 449. It says Tennessee law does not ban birth control or fertility treatment, and that a doctor has a right to offer them and a person has a right to use them. It does not promise anyone those services, or funding or insurance for them. The Tennessee House passed it 54-37, and it became law.

April 10, 2025

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