Adam Lowe, Tennessee Senate District 1: Voting Record

Where they sit

Every current senator, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.

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Votes with DemocratsCrosses party linesVotes with Republicans

Adam Lowe's seat is marked. Seats run from most liberal (left) to most conservative (right), by contested floor votes. Color shows how often each member crosses party lines toward the middle on votes that divide the parties: solid blue or red means almost never, and purple means on at least 1 in 10 of those votes. Gray seats are members too new to score. How these numbers work

Tennessee Senate72ndpercentile

More conservative than 71% of the Tennessee Senate.

Most liberalMost conservative

10th most conservative of 33

On the November 3 ballot

Adam Lowe is the only candidate on the November 3 ballot. (Tennessee Senate District 1)

The scores

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Votes with the Senate's Speaker

92%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Adam Lowe.

On 289 contested votes where both voted99% on all 4,411 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

97%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Adam Lowe.

On 309 party-line votesPartisan rank: 20 of 33 in the Senate (tied with 2 others)19 senators vote with their party more often

Bills

The bills Adam Lowe sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.

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Bills: Adam Lowe
	Statewide	Local
Sponsored	95	2
Passed both chambers	44	2
Became law	44	2
Vetoed by the Governor	0	0

Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 7 of 33 in the Senate (tied with 1 other) · 7 of 27 Republicans (tied with 1 other)

A bill's sponsor is its prime sponsor in its own chamber; co-sponsors aren't counted. Every Tennessee bill has a companion in the other chamber with its own sponsor, and only one of the two becomes law: the sponsor of the companion that didn't is credited through the one that did.

Bills that passed both chambers

Bills that passed both chambers: Adam Lowe
Bill	Type	Result	Final action
SB 2725 Subject to local approval, rewrites the charter of the City of Niota.	Local	Became law passed as HB 2661	May 27, 2026
SB 1771 As enacted, authorizes certain counties to adopt a resolution prohibiting a municipality or regional zoning commission from exercising zoning authority…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2027 As enacted, authorizes a county or municipality to request the department of transportation to conduct a highway traffic noise study for residential…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2009	May 26, 2026
SB 2025 As enacted, creates a pilot project to provide for criminal magistrates in the 10 counties in which the criminal courts experience the highest judicial…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2251	May 26, 2026
SB 2030 As enacted, requires sexual offenders and violent sexual offenders to notify the owner or operator of any campground on which the offender intends to stay…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 1823 As enacted, requires a state department, agency, or official who contracts with a business to acquire property or services to make payments under the contract…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 1822 As enacted, requires an LEA that operates a public high school that meets certain criteria to permit certain high school students who are enrolled in private…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 2032 As enacted, requires a public safety employer to provide an employee or prospective employee with reasonable access to the employee's or prospective…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 1968 As enacted, requires a director of schools to refer to juvenile court certain students who were formerly enrolled in the LEA, who were receiving certain…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 2652 As enacted, requires the department to promulgate rules to implement and administer a voluntary program for the promotion of meat and byproducts from…	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 2262 As enacted, authorizes a small business that believes an online search engine has blacklisted the small business to contact the online search engine and…	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 1593 As enacted, extends from 30 to 90 days, the time following the end of a county's fiscal year within which a county must submit an annual report to the…	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 2699 Subject to local approval, sets compensation of mayor and council members by ordinance rather than specific dollar amounts; does not alter compensation…	Local	Became law passed as HB 2637	May 1, 2026
SB 2031 As enacted, authorizes a person to bring a civil action against a healthcare professional for an injury that is a result of a medical procedure, if the…	Statewide	Became law	April 28, 2026
SB 2259 As enacted, requires the board of regents, state university boards, and the board of trustees for the University of Tennessee system to adopt and implement…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2194	April 27, 2026
SB 1704 As enacted, repeals statutory requirements related to raccoon hunting, thereby permitting the Tennessee fish and wildlife commission to regulate such…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2030	April 27, 2026
SB 2220 As enacted, requires the department to make an initial screening, and potentially an assessment, upon receiving a report of harm that includes a report of…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2262	April 24, 2026
SB 2118 As enacted, prohibits the division from providing coverage or reimbursement for a medical procedure performed on, or administered to, an individual if the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2498	April 24, 2026
SB 1821 As enacted, clarifies that a person 19 or older does not need a license or permit to sell bakery goods, homemade or otherwise; soft drinks; or other similar…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2020	April 24, 2026
SB 2028 As enacted, clarifies that local governmental entities shall not regulate the manner and means of taking wildlife, including the discharge of a firearm while…	Statewide	Became law	April 13, 2026
SB 1951 As enacted, authorizes a school bus that is used exclusively to transport students from school to an after-school program to be used until the bus reaches the…	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
SB 1953 As enacted, beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, requires each LEA and public charter school to, as part of the social studies curriculum, present a…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2395	March 30, 2026
SB 178 As enacted, requires a local governing body subject to the open meetings laws to reserve a period of public comment to provide the public with the opportunity…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 22	March 30, 2026
SB 16 As enacted, generally provides that a middle school student or high school student who transfers from one member school to another is immediately eligible to…	Statewide	Became law	March 16, 2026
SB 845 As enacted, sets up a process by which the attorney general and reporter may review whether a local government action violates state law or the Constitution…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1097	May 27, 2025
SB 778 As enacted, limits to four the number of points that may be assessed to a person's driver record for the offense of operating a motor vehicle while the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 816	May 27, 2025
SB 727 As enacted, revises present law relative to advertising the sale of land to foreclose a deed of trust, mortgage, or other lien securing the payment of money…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1127	May 27, 2025
SB 1060 As enacted, prohibits political campaign committees formed to support or oppose a measure from receiving, soliciting, or accepting contributions or…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 888	May 27, 2025
SB 415 As enacted, creates an advisory committee on innovations in K-12 education.	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 147 As enacted, requires the department of transportation to install signs or markers displaying language or an appropriate symbol indicating to motorists that a…	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 7 As enacted, prohibits the commission, and any other state entity other than the state building commission engaged in the historic preservation of real…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 481 As enacted, removes the requirement for a claimant to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property.	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 111 As enacted, authorizes a licensee that holds more than a 50 percent ownership interest in a manufacturer and a winery that are located on the same deeded…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 110 As enacted, authorizes a residential facility for persons with disabilities to operate in the eastern grand division of this state under an existing…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 817 As enacted, authorizes a healthcare practitioner to prescribe and a pharmacist to dispense a prescribed, bronchodilator rescue inhaler to an authorized entity…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 760	May 8, 2025
SB 8 As enacted, enacts the "Fairness in Benefits Act."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 550	May 8, 2025
SB 1059 As enacted, revises the definition of "contribution," for purposes of financial disclosures under the state's campaign finance laws, to include an activity…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1073	May 8, 2025
SB 816 As enacted, adds as unlawful under the Consumer Protection Act of 1977 the making of false statements or misrepresentations of fact to a consumer to indicate…	Statewide	Became law	April 30, 2025
SB 729 As enacted, authorizes an LEA to adopt and implement a merit-based pay structure for educators to award additional compensation to high-performing educators…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 728 As enacted, authorizes utility terrain vehicles to operate on county roads and state highways throughout the state, subject to certain restrictions.	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 1112 As enacted, prohibits a local board of education or public charter school governing body from removing a material from a library collection for the sole…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 179 As enacted, defines "district," for purposes of municipal elections, to mean a district, region, precinct, sector, territory, ward, or other geographical area…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 23	April 28, 2025
SB 170 As enacted, requires suspension of a minor's driving privileges or ability to obtain a driver license for a period of one year as part of the disposition if a…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1025	April 28, 2025
SB 780 As enacted, authorizes an honorably discharged member of the national guard to receive "veteran" designation on driver license; specifies documentation that…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 790	April 4, 2025
SB 318 As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Genomic Security and End Organ Harvesting Act."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 395	April 4, 2025
SB 146 As enacted, specifies that in an educational neglect case a subpoena may be issued for a student's attendance record, including all previous school years that…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 61	April 4, 2025

Budget projects

Tennessee's appropriations act doesn't say which legislator asked for an item, so there's no budget figure for Tennessee legislators.

Contested votes where they split

22 against the Senate's Speaker; 18 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: Adam Lowe
Date	Bill and motion	Their vote	Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate	Most of their party
April 23, 2026	HB 2175: As enacted, requires a delivery network company or delivery network company driver to comply with certain automobile liability insurance requirements. Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 21, 2026	HB 2319: As introduced, prohibits an employee of a local government from serving on the legislative body of the local government for which the employee works. Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
April 20, 2026	SB 2102: As enacted, requires, for an electric utility providing services outside the corporate limits of the home municipality, expansion of the utility board to… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 20, 2026	HB 1034: As enacted, requires a court to apply rebuttable presumptions when determining the reasonableness in time of a restrictive covenant sought to be enforced… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 15, 2026	SB 1868: As enacted, requires a child placed in the custody of the department to remain in custody so long as necessary to complete treatment or services, which must… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 14, 2026	SB 259: As enacted, clarifies that a child's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian may, to the extent allowable by federal law, access and review all health and… Final Passage	Yea	Nay (split)	Yea
April 13, 2026	HB 1729: As enacted, allows student performance on the Classic Learning Test to be used alongside the ACT and SAT for various purposes; makes various changes to home… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 9, 2026	SB 34: As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
April 6, 2026	SB 997: As introduced, specifies circumstances in which a referendum will not be required to effectuate annexation of territory; removes repealer provision for… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 6, 2026	HB 803: As enacted, makes revision to present law concerning sewerage systems using land application; exempts Hamilton County from the provisions requiring the… Final Passage	Yea	Nay (split)	Yea
April 2, 2026	SJR 551: Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee to change the date of elections for judicial and other civil officers… Adoption	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 2, 2026	HB 1971: As enacted, removes the right of a cause of action for any affected person who seeks declaratory and injunctive relief in any action brought regarding the… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 26, 2026	SB 1369: As enacted, revises law relative to the operation of acute care hospitals. Final Passage	Yea	Nay (split)	Yea
March 16, 2026	SB 1995: As introduced, requires the governor to proclaim a statewide day of mourning and order the state flag to be flown at half staff over the state capitol during… Final Passage	Yea	Yea	Nay (split)
March 5, 2026	SB 2355: As enacted, generally requires a guardian ad litem appointed by the court to complete training appropriate to that role, including training in early… Final Passage	Nay	Not voting	Yea (split)
March 5, 2026	SB 1591: As introduced, imposes state and local litigation taxes on a person who violates the prohibition against using a wireless telecommunications device or… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 26, 2026	SB 1681: As enacted, prohibits a hospital emergency department, including a satellite emergency department, from denying to a woman who presents at such facility and… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 12, 2026	HB 940: As enacted, generally increases from 12 to 14, the age that a person must be to lawfully operate a personal watercraft upon the waters of Tennessee without… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 22, 2025	HB 1093: As enacted, expands the definition of "machine gun" to include any part, or combination of parts, designed and intended solely for use in converting a firearm… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 21, 2025	HJR 100: Urges the Tennessee opioid abatement council and each participating county to allocate 25 percent of approved expenditures from the opioid abatement fund to… Concurrence	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 21, 2025	HB 371: As enacted, generally requires a person convicted of a Class A misdemeanor in general sessions court to pay for and complete a cognitive behavioral training… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 17, 2025	HB 816: As enacted, limits to four the number of points that may be assessed to a person's driver record for the offense of operating a motor vehicle while the… Final Passage	Yea	Nay (split)	Yea
April 10, 2025	SB 336: As enacted, revises present law that prohibits a person convicted of an infamous crime after May 18, 1981, from being eligible to have the right to vote… Final Passage	Nay	Nay	Yea (split)
April 10, 2025	HB 601: As enacted, authorizes criminal defendants who plead guilty, best interest, or no contest to also petition for a writ of error coram nobis based on evidence… Final Passage	Nay	Nay	Yea (split)
March 13, 2025	SB 1012: As introduced, treats nieces and nephews of the whole or half-blood of a primary caregiver as being related to the caregiver for purposes of present laws… Final Passage	Yea	Nay (split)	Yea
March 6, 2025	SB 27: As enacted, prohibits orders, proclamations, or rules issued by the governor under the governor's emergency management powers from contravening, suspending… Final Passage	Yea	Nay (split)	Yea

Every roll call

How Adam Lowe voted on each of the 4,545 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.

Every roll call: Adam Lowe
Date	Vote	Their vote	Most of their party	Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate	Yeas–nays
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Contested and party-line votes link to their own pages; the rest link to the official record.

Contact, committees and caucuses

Contact

Official page: wapp.capitol.tn.gov
Email: sen.adam.lowe@capitol.tn.gov
Capitol office: Room 732, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-1946

Committees

Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources First vice chair
Education
Pensions
State and Local Government

Contact details and committee assignments from Open States' data on the Tennessee General Assembly, which it collects from the chambers' websites, as of Oct. 15, 2026.