Ed Jackson

Jackson sponsored Senate Bill 2431, enacted in 2026, making health-law changes involving public claims data, critical access hospitals, and certificates of need.

May 27, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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

Jackson sponsored Senate Bill 1198, enacted in 2025, designating Perry County Community Hospital and Decatur County General Hospital as necessary providers for critical-access-hospital eligibility.

April 28, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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

Jackson sponsored Senate Bill 2586, enacted in 2026, authorizing physicians to perform certain stem-cell or regenerative-medicine therapies not approved by the FDA.

May 26, 2026Opposes 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

In March 2026, Jackson publicly described conditions in Tennessee prisons as the worst he had seen in more than a decade and expressed support for stronger oversight.

March 27, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: tennesseelookout.com · researched July 18, 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 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

In March 2026, Jackson publicly described conditions in Tennessee prisons as the worst he had seen in more than a decade and expressed support for stronger oversight.

March 27, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: tennesseelookout.com · researched July 18, 2026

Jackson sponsored Senate Bill 1201, enacted in 2025, requiring a state study of a reentry facility for inmates preparing to return to the community.

May 8, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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

Jackson sponsored Senate Bill 1915, enacted in 2026, expanding citizenship or lawful-presence verification and reporting requirements for local public-benefit applicants.

May 27, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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

Jackson sponsored Senate Bill 49, enacted in 2025, extending the advisory committee for children's special services through June 2029.

March 31, 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

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

Jackson sponsored legislation imposing civil and criminal penalties on paid voter-registration drives that knowingly or intentionally violated Tennessee voter-registration law.

April 15, 2019Supports Election Integrity

Source: courthousenews.com · 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

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

Jackson sponsored legislation imposing civil and criminal penalties on paid voter-registration drives that knowingly or intentionally violated Tennessee voter-registration law.

April 15, 2019Opposes Civil Rights

Source: courthousenews.com · researched July 18, 2026

Voted for 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, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Jackson sponsored Senate Bill 78, enacted in 2025, extending the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee through June 2029.

March 31, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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

Jackson won the 2022 District 25 general election with 35,766 votes against independent Ronnie Henley's 9,278.

November 8, 2022

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Jackson sponsored Senate Bill 77, enacted in 2025, extending the Tennessee Medical Cannabis Commission through June 2029.

March 31, 2025

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