Becky Massey, Tennessee Senate District 6: 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

Becky Massey'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

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More liberal than 71% of the Tennessee Senate.

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10th most liberal of 33

The scores

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Votes with the Senate's Speaker

96%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Becky Massey.

On 290 contested votes where both voted99% on all 4,232 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

98%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Becky Massey.

On 309 party-line votesPartisan rank: 14 of 33 in the Senate (tied with 5 others)13 senators vote with their party more often

Bills

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

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Bills: Becky Massey
	Statewide	Local
Sponsored	77	1
Passed both chambers	44	1
Became law	44	1
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: Becky Massey
Bill	Type	Result	Final action
SB 2613 As enacted, revises the "Convention Center Authorities Act of 2009" as the "Convention Center and Agricultural Exposition Authorities Act."	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1926 As enacted, requires a dental hygienist to be working under the direct supervision of a dentist seeing a new patient before completing diagnostic radiographs…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1773 As enacted, revises various provisions governing surrendering custody of unwanted infants.	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1692 As enacted, enacts the "Military Families Licensing Recognition Act."	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1493 As enacted, requires TACIR to study artificial intelligence and submit a report to the governor and both speakers by January 31, 2027.	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1921 As enacted, requires the department to annually publish on the department's website a report on the temporary assistance for needy families program's and the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2358	May 26, 2026
SB 2361 As enacted, requires TACIR, with the assistance of relevant state agencies, to conduct a comprehensive study on public school administered early childhood…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 1726 As enacted, makes various changes to the present law pertaining to the persistent domestic violence offender registry.	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2567	May 18, 2026
SB 1492 As enacted, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to study the status of the crime stoppers programs across the state and…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 326 As enacted, grants the bureau discretion to investigate reports of suspected elder financial exploitation.	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 354	May 14, 2026
SB 2363 As enacted, requires a third-party booking site that includes information about ancillary hotel services available at a hotel to disclose that there are…	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 1478 As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to the naming of certain roads and bridges.	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 1477 As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to license plates, including, but not limited to, creating new specialty earmarked license plates and…	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 2362 As enacted, requires the department and the department of disability and aging to collaborate to ensure that children with an intellectual or developmental…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 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…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2026
SB 609 As enacted, requires a court to consider the extent to which a parenting schedule provides each parent a meaningful opportunity to participate in the child's…	Statewide	Became law	April 24, 2026
SB 1848 As enacted, authorizes additional healthcare providers to directly administer buprenorphine mono or buprenorphine without the use of naloxone; adds that…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1984	April 24, 2026
SB 2358 As enacted, changes the scope of practice of a podiatrist from a person who examines, diagnoses, or treats, in addition to the ailments of the human foot and…	Statewide	Became law	April 13, 2026
SB 2360 As enacted, authorizes enforcement of a garagekeeper's lien on a motor vehicle that was stored for the purpose of repairs without express written…	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
SB 175 As enacted, requires by July 1, 2027, and each July 1 thereafter, the commissioner of correction to deliver to the chairs of legislative committees with…	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
SB 1624 As enacted, requires political advertisements to include a disclaimer if the advertisements include deepfake elements impersonating or depicting a candidate…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1513	March 30, 2026
SB 1625 As enacted, clarifies the areas in which a personal delivery device may be operated and where such devices are prohibited; authorizes local resolutions or…	Statewide	Became law	March 16, 2026
SB 944 As enacted, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to establish a mental health evaluation process for a community mental…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1089	May 27, 2025
SB 450 As enacted, enacts the "Savannah Grace Copeland Act."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 641	May 27, 2025
SB 324 As enacted, enacts "Savanna's Law," which creates a registry of persistent domestic violence offenders; requires the bureau to maintain the registry.	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1200	May 27, 2025
SB 203 As enacted, creates new specialty earmarked license plates; extends certain specialty earmarked license plates; authorizes the funds generated from the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 212	May 27, 2025
SB 899 As enacted, changes the standard for entry-resistant window treatment for school buildings constructed or remodeled on or after July 1, 2025; requires the…	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 703 As enacted, requires TACIR to study sustainable funding sources that meet this state's future transportation infrastructure needs and submit its…	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 322 As enacted, grants eligible employees leave of up to six workweeks because the employee is caring for a family member with a serious health condition.	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 448 As enacted, removes a definition of "content harmful to minors" from the Protect Tennessee Minors Act.	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 202 As enacted, makes revisions regarding the naming of certain roads and bridges.	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 452 As enacted, removes the restriction that earnings in an achieving a better life experience account may only be expended for a student's education expenses…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 496	May 8, 2025
SB 319 As enacted, adds instruction for public high school students on this state's safe haven law to the required components of a family life curriculum.	Statewide	Became law	May 2, 2025
SB 943 As enacted, requires, in a child custody order, the court to include written findings of fact as to whether the limitations in present law relative to…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 449 As enacted, enacts the "Fertility Treatment and Contraceptive Protection Act."	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 206 As enacted, authorizes persons to wear daylight fluorescent pink as a substitute for daylight fluorescent orange when hunting big game during gun hunts…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 705 As enacted, requires that certain employees of state special schools receive the same leave and certain other benefits as employees of LEAs and public charter…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 676	April 28, 2025
SB 1434 Subject to local approval, repeals the Tennessee Technology Development Authority Act.	Local	Became law	April 28, 2025
SB 707 As enacted, specifies that a prospective purchaser of tobacco, smoking hemp, vapor products, or smokeless nicotine products must produce proof of age prior to…	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2025
SB 704 As enacted, creates the Class B misdemeanor offenses of criminal impersonation of a transportation network company driver and criminal impersonation of a…	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2025
SB 320 As enacted, lowers the county population threshold, from in excess of 500,000 to in excess of 350,000, for a sports authority facility to be eligible to…	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2025
SB 174 As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners to register an applicant as a registered surgical assistant if the applicant maintains current credentials…	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2025
SB 323 As enacted, authorizes the commission to name real property, infrastructure, improvements to infrastructure, or features under the agency’s jurisdiction.	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 422	April 4, 2025
SB 321 As enacted, creates the advisory task force on state reimbursement rates to make recommendations on annual adjustments to the reimbursement rates paid to…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 498	April 4, 2025
SB 171 As enacted, enacts "The Ink of Hope Act"; requires tattoo operators and tattoo artists to complete up to one hour of training on recognizing and reporting…	Statewide	Became law	March 21, 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

13 against the Senate's Speaker; 8 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: Becky Massey
Date	Bill and motion	Their vote	Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate	Most of their party
April 23, 2026	HB 2585: As introduced, states that the amount of damages awarded as noneconomic damages must not exceed $1 million in a health care liability action arising from… Final Passage	Yea	Present, not voting	Nay (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	Yea	Yea	Nay (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 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	Yea	Yea	Nay (split)
April 9, 2026	HB 1446: As enacted, enacts the "Recognizing Judea and Samaria Act." 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
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 12, 2026	HB 1194: As enacted, defines, for purposes of the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act, a "private employer" as any person who is required by federal law and regulations to… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 21, 2025	HB 679: As enacted, provides that when the victim of a sexually oriented crime is a minor, the consent of a parent or guardian is not required for the victim to… Motion to Refer	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 836: As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to refuse to enroll students who are unlawfully present in the United States. Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
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	Yea	Nay (split)	Yea
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	Yea	Nay (split)	Yea
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 13, 2025	SB 956: As introduced, lowers the period of time that must elapse after completion of the sentence imposed before a petitioner may have an eligible criminal offense… Final Passage	Yea	Nay (split)	—
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 Becky Massey voted on each of the 4,545 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.

Every roll call: Becky Massey
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.becky.massey@capitol.tn.gov
Capitol office: Room 776, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-1648

Committees

Transportation and Safety Chair
Health and Welfare

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.