Tennessee House · District 17
Andrew Farmer
Where they sit
Every current House member, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.
Andrew Farmer'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
On the November 3 ballot
Andrew Farmer is the only candidate on the November 3 ballot. (Tennessee House District 17)
The scores
How these numbers work →Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Andrew Farmer.
Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Andrew Farmer.
Bills
The bills Andrew Farmer sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.
| Statewide | Local | |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 38 | 0 |
| Passed both chambers | 23 | 0 |
| Became law | 23 | 0 |
| Vetoed by the Governor | 0 | 0 |
Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 4 of 97 in the House · 4 of 74 Republicans
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
| Bill | Type | Result | Final action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 684 As enacted, requires the commissioner to provide the commissioner of correction with a form application for food assistance for use by inmates who are… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 879 |
May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2496 As enacted, adds to the definition of a "qualified public use facility" as used in the Local Tourism Development Zone Business Tax Act a mixed-use development… |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1966 As enacted, requires the commissioner to develop a statewide quality assurance program to ensure quality control through monitoring, evaluation, and feedback… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1622 |
May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1970 As enacted, requires a description of real property contained within a deed of conveyance of a property not previously described in a recorded instrument to… |
Statewide | Became law | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 1968 As enacted, adds Alvogen, Inc., Apotex Corp., and Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. to the list of companies that may be released by the attorney general for… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1495 |
May 18, 2026 |
| HB 656 As enacted, extends present law concerning compensated unused leave for teachers to all employees of LEAs and public charter schools. |
Statewide | Became law | May 14, 2026 |
| HB 483 As enacted, authorizes the attorney general to conduct a study of a district attorney general's disposition of charges and other ancillary matters within the… |
Statewide | Became law | May 14, 2026 |
| HB 2495 As enacted, provides that a provision of a document requiring a transferor or transferee to pay a fee, charge, assessment, dues, contribution, deposit, or… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 2273 |
May 4, 2026 |
| HB 2429 As enacted, revises various provisions regarding children, including requiring a parent educational seminar in certain juvenile cases. |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 2324 |
May 4, 2026 |
| HB 2078 As enacted, enacts the "Parental Rights Protection Act." |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 2365 |
May 4, 2026 |
| HB 569 As enacted, requires title insurance agencies that separately represent the buyer and seller in a real estate transaction and agree to an arrangement to share… |
Statewide | Became law | April 27, 2026 |
| HB 1972 As enacted, clarifies that if marijuana is rescheduled or deleted as a controlled substance under federal law, the commissioner is prohibited from… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1603 |
April 27, 2026 |
| HB 1965 As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Child Care Hosting Safe Harbor Act." |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1683 |
April 27, 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… |
Statewide | Became law | April 23, 2026 |
| HB 487 As enacted, revises present law concerning court clerks' fees. |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 486 As enacted, creates five additional assistant district public defender positions effective July 1, 2025. |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1128 As enacted, revises present law relative to constables. |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1127 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 | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1125 As enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 602 |
May 15, 2025 |
| HB 492 As enacted, requires the court to consider any failure to pay child support, rather than failure for a period of three years or more, when making a child… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 540 |
May 13, 2025 |
| HB 491 As enacted, adds Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc., Indivior Inc., Viatris Inc., and Purdue… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 48 |
May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1180 As enacted, allows petitioners to include all children in one adoption petition if the petitioners are seeking to adopt more than one child at the same time… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1005 |
May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1129 As enacted, lifts certain restrictions on temporary borrow pits used to source material for a road work construction project performed in a FEMA-certified… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 915 |
April 29, 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
8 against the Speaker; 15 against most of their party.
Every roll call
How Andrew Farmer voted on each of the 1,473 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.
| Date | Vote | Their vote | Most of their party | Speaker | 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
- rep.andrew.farmer@capitol.tn.gov
- Capitol office
- Room 630, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-4419
Committees
- Judiciary Chair
- Calendar and Rules
- Health
- Select Rules
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.
Source: the Tennessee General Assembly's floor vote records, as Open States collects them, Jan. 15, 2025 to April 23, 2026. How these numbers work · Corrections