Jack Johnson

Johnson sponsored enacted SB 1305 extending Tennessee's CoverKids children's health-insurance program through June 2030.

April 8, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored enacted SB 207 establishing a Tennessee fund and grant program for preserving farmland and forestland through conservation easements.

May 15, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

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 Senate passed it 18-13, and it became law.

April 2, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted to pass HB 618. Starting in 2027 it bars a person who holds a local elected office from holding a second elected office in Tennessee at the same time. Anyone already holding two offices on January 1, 2027 may keep them and run again, and party executive committee seats do not count. The Tennessee Senate passed it 21-10, and it became law.

February 26, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted to pass HB 773. It requires that a website carrying official legal notices be free to view, with no fee or subscription, and that it be separate from the newspaper's own site and owned by someone else. The Tennessee Senate passed it 23-8, and it became law.

April 22, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted to adopt the compromise version of SB 229. It charges political campaign committees a $150 fee each year to help pay for the agency that regulates them, while candidates pay nothing. It also makes a candidate in a local election that crosses county lines file treasurer paperwork with each county's election commission. The Tennessee Senate adopted it 23-6, and it became law.

April 22, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

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 Senate passed it 24-7, and it became law.

April 23, 2026Opposes Immigration

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted to accept the House's version of Senate Bill 1915, the final Senate vote on the bill. The law makes counties, cities, and towns check that each benefit applicant age 18 or older is a citizen or lawfully present. Local forms and automated phone systems must carry that notice after their first update following July 1, 2026. An agency may not delay a benefit only because the check is still pending. It must stop a recurring benefit once a final check shows the person is not a citizen or a qualified immigrant. Agencies must also report people who are not lawfully present and receive benefits to a state immigration enforcement office. An employee who knowingly fails to report commits a Class A misdemeanor. The attorney general may investigate local governments and withhold their state funding. The Senate agreed 24-6 and it became law as Public Chapter 1106.

April 22, 2026Opposes Immigration

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted to pass 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 Senate passed it 21-7, and it became law.

April 16, 2026Opposes Immigration

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted to pass HB 1194. It extends Tennessee's work authorization law to almost every private employer. The law had applied to businesses with at least six employees; it now applies to those with at least one. The Tennessee Senate passed it 19-13, and it became law.

March 12, 2026Opposes Immigration

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

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 Senate passed it 26-7, and it became law.

January 29, 2025Opposes Immigration

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Johnson sponsored SB 6003, enacted in 2025 to create Hurricane Helene interest-payment and governor response-and-recovery funds for disaster assistance.

February 12, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored SB 6001, the enacted Education Freedom Scholarship Act establishing state-funded scholarships for private-school and other eligible education expenses.

February 12, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored enacted SB 1779 creating Tennessee misdemeanors for intentionally remaining after a final removal order and for returning after denial, exclusion, deportation, or removal from the United States.

April 27, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored enacted SB 1075, which expanded Tennessee's machine-gun definition, increased penalties for machine-gun offenses, and added firearm-related sentencing provisions.

May 27, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored SB 6002, enacted in 2025 to create a centralized state immigration-enforcement division and grant program, penalize officials who adopt sanctuary policies, and change licenses issued to lawful permanent residents.

February 12, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored SB 1834, enacted in 2024 to authorize the death penalty, life without parole, or life imprisonment for adults convicted of rape of a child or aggravated rape of a child.

May 9, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored enacted SB 1271 clarifying that industrial-development housing facilities may include affordable and workforce housing and allowing local amendments to economic-impact plans.

May 8, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Voted to pass SB 1868. It says a child placed in state custody for treatment stays only as long as the treatment needs, and that the treatment must be evidence-based and given by a qualified provider. Custody is capped at six months, which a court may extend once by six more after a hearing. The Tennessee Senate passed it 22-11, and it became law.

April 15, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Johnson sponsored enacted SB 1305 extending Tennessee's CoverKids children's health-insurance program through June 2030.

April 8, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored SB 6003, enacted in 2025 to create Hurricane Helene interest-payment and governor response-and-recovery funds for disaster assistance.

February 12, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Voted to pass SB 2028. It bars cities and counties from setting rules on how wildlife may be taken, including firing a gun while lawfully hunting. Those rules are left to the state wildlife agency. The Tennessee Senate passed it 24-7, and it became law.

March 12, 2026Opposes Gun Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Johnson sponsored enacted SB 1075, which expanded Tennessee's machine-gun definition, increased penalties for machine-gun offenses, and added firearm-related sentencing provisions.

May 27, 2025Supports Gun Control

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Voted for House Bill 1093. Machine gun now includes parts meant only to convert a gun; making, having, moving, fixing, or selling one rises from a Class E to a more serious Class C felony, and post-felony possession rules add ammunition. Aggravated assault by firing from a vehicle gets no probation and requires the full sentence with no early release. The Tennessee Senate passed it 23-8, and it became law.

April 22, 2025Supports Gun Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Johnson sponsored enacted SB 799 generally requiring statewide political parties to nominate candidates through primary elections for partisan offices, with limited county exceptions.

April 24, 2025Supports Election Integrity

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored SB 6002, enacted in 2025 to create a centralized state immigration-enforcement division and grant program, penalize officials who adopt sanctuary policies, and change licenses issued to lawful permanent residents.

February 12, 2025Supports Election Integrity

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored enacted SB 1713 requiring annual attestations that public higher-education institutions have not implemented discriminatory preferences to increase diversity, equity, or inclusion and authorizing related attorney-general investigations.

May 27, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Voted to pass HB 1271. By January 2027 every city and county must rewrite any ordinance, rule or policy that mentions a person's sex or gender so those words mean the physical traits a person is born with. The Tennessee Senate passed it 24-6, and it became law.

April 22, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted to pass 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 Senate passed it 24-7, and it became law.

April 13, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tennessee's Johnson-sponsored SB 1 restriction on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors against an Equal Protection challenge.

June 18, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

Source: supremecourt.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored enacted SB 1083 and SB 1084, known as the Dismantle DEI in Employment Act and Dismantling DEI Departments Act.

May 27, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Voted to pass HB 601. It opens a late-stage appeal, the writ of error coram nobis, to people who pleaded guilty, no contest or best interest. Before this the route was open only to those convicted at trial, so new evidence of innocence could not be raised the same way. The Tennessee Senate passed it 24-6, and it became law.

April 10, 2025Supports Civil Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted for the Senate version of Senate Bill 336. It removed one certificate condition and replaced full child-support payment with twelve months of following all current orders, including overdue-payment orders. The Senate passed it 24-8; the final House rewrite instead changed the general restoration law, removed all court-cost payment, kept twelve-month child-support compliance, and became law.

April 10, 2025Supports Civil Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted to pass 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 Senate passed it 24-6, and it became law.

March 31, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Johnson sponsored SB 2148/HB 2100, enacted in 2024 to restrict financial institutions and insurers from denying, cancelling, or varying services because of political opinions, speech, affiliations, or religious beliefs and exercise.

May 1, 2024Supports Civil Rights

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Sponsored a law banning doctors from giving minors medical treatments meant to help them live as a gender different from their sex (Senate Bill 1). The governor signed it in March 2023.

March 2, 2023Opposes Civil Rights

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored SB 3, enacted in 2023 to criminalize adult cabaret performances on public property or where they could be viewed by minors.

March 2, 2023Opposes Civil Rights

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Voted to pass HB 2175. It requires delivery companies and their drivers to carry set car insurance while the driver is logged on and available for deliveries, and while a delivery is under way. The Tennessee Senate passed it 19-9, and it became law.

April 23, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Johnson sponsored SB 2148/HB 2100, enacted in 2024 to restrict financial institutions and insurers from denying, cancelling, or varying services because of political opinions, speech, affiliations, or religious beliefs and exercise.

May 1, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

The Tennessee General Assembly lists Johnson's 2026 honors as including awards from Jonathan's Path, the Tennessee Medical Association PAC, the Alliance for Education Freedom, and Americans for Prosperity.

July 18, 2026

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson serves as Senate Republican Leader, vice-chair of the Senate Calendar Committee, and a member of the Commerce and Labor, Finance, Ethics, and Joint Ways and Means committees.

July 17, 2026

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson has served in the Tennessee Senate from the 105th through 114th General Assemblies after first winning the office in 2006.

July 17, 2026

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Voted against Senate Bill 2040. Starting July 1, 2028, an owner above five percent generally cannot control a pharmacy plus both a health insurer and drug-benefit manager. Hospital pharmacies are not benefit managers, independent pharmacies keep mail, specialty, and delivery services, certain rare drugs are excluded, and a violating pharmacy may operate through December 31, 2028 during a real sale to an independent buyer. The Tennessee Senate passed it 24-9, and it became law.

April 20, 2026

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Johnson sponsored SB 1870, which passed the Senate unanimously and proposed terminating Tennessee's state credit-union share-insurance corporation and revising financial-institution examination rules.

February 23, 2026

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Johnson sponsored enacted SB 1279 authorizing the financial-institutions commissioner to determine the deposit-insurance requirements for each state bank.

April 3, 2025

Source: wapp.capitol.tn.gov · researched July 18, 2026