Bill Powers, Tennessee Senate District 22: 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

Bill Powers'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 Senate91stpercentile

More conservative than 90% of the Tennessee Senate.

Most liberalMost conservative

4th most conservative 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 Bill Powers.

On 296 contested votes where both voted99% on all 4,427 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

99%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Bill Powers.

On 318 party-line votesPartisan rank: 4 of 33 in the Senate (tied with 9 others)3 senators vote with their party more often

Bills

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

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Bills: Bill Powers
	Statewide	Local
Sponsored	46	1
Passed both chambers	27	1
Became law	27	1
Vetoed by the Governor	0	0

Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 17 of 33 in the Senate · 17 of 27 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

Bills that passed both chambers: Bill Powers
Bill	Type	Result	Final action
SB 2450 As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study to determine if newspapers of general…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2410 As enacted, establishes the community workforce housing innovation pilot program to be administered by the Tennessee housing development agency; authorizes…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2509	May 27, 2026
SB 1668 As enacted, authorizes municipalities and metropolitan governments to adopt a tiered system of monetary penalties for repeated violations of the same…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1667 As enacted, prohibits the initial issuance of registration of a motor vehicle if the vehicle has not met the requirements of the Financial Responsibility Law…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2442 As enacted, enacts the "The Jeff Burkhart Act," which adds counties to the forms of local government that may establish a self-financing central business…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2258	May 26, 2026
SB 2441 As enacted, requires an LEA to close a virtual school not meeting certain requirements for continued operation; requires the department of education to…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 1670 As enacted, recognizes the United States space force as a distinct branch of the United States armed forces by adding the space force to definitions and…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 2447 As enacted, authorizes graduates of certain accredited engineering technology curriculums to apply for and become registered as engineers, provided, that such…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2130	May 5, 2026
SB 1817 As enacted, revises law relative to LEAs providing enrollment and services to certain students who are the dependent children of service members.	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 1816 As enacted, adds the bottling of distilled spirits to the definition of "manufacture" for purposes of licensing and regulation of the manufacturing of…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 1684 As enacted, authorizes, effective January 1, 2027, temporary placards to be issued to a female who has a pregnancy certified to be high risk by her physician.	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 1488 As enacted, requires any flag flown over the state capitol building to be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset in observance of Pearl Harbor Remembrance…	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 1666 As enacted, excludes a person or entity that operates a family child care home and obtains a United States department of defense certificate to operate from…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1663	April 24, 2026
SB 1669 As enacted, removes present law that prohibits a person from being denied a commercial driver license, or being deemed medically unqualified to operate a…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1546	March 23, 2026
SB 1618 As enacted, clarifies that if a financial institution reasonably believes a customer is deceased, then the financial institution does not have a duty to…	Statewide	Became law	March 16, 2026
SB 1441 Subject to local approval, creates a fifth General Sessions and Juvenile Court of Montgomery County.	Local	Became law passed as HB 1419	June 4, 2025
SB 505 As enacted, permits a court to transfer, upon motion by the defendant, a criminal case to the veterans treatment court program in Montgomery County if the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 524	May 27, 2025
SB 950 As enacted, creates a federal education deregulation cooperation task force to prepare Tennessee for the potential of deregulation of federal laws…	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 953 As enacted, authorizes, after July 1, 2025, a political subdivision to adopt a supplemental bridge benefit for members who are in positions covered by…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 948 As enacted, requires certain property, projects, and joint ventures to meet certain requirements if a legislative body of a county or municipality adopts by…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 346 As enacted, changes present law concerning the frequency of fire drills in educational occupancies.	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 439 As enacted, authorizes, subject to certain provisions, a taxpayer, at the taxpayer's discretion, to add back to net earnings certain deductions and to…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 635	May 8, 2025
SB 124 As enacted, requires local education agencies to transfer a student's record, including the student's disciplinary record, to the school to which the student…	Statewide	Became law	May 2, 2025
SB 946 As enacted, requires an LEA that receives credible information regarding a threat of violence or significantly disruptive behavior directed toward, or…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 811 As enacted, enacts the "Teen Social Media and Internet Safety Act."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 825	April 28, 2025
SB 954 As enacted, authorizes counties to delegate authority to the chief administrative officer of the county highway department to set lower speed limits on county…	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2025
SB 329 As enacted, requires each department, agency, office, commission, institution, or instrumentality of the executive branch to accept electronic transmissions…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 321	April 4, 2025
SB 115 As enacted, specifies penalties for a municipality that fails to timely provide the comptroller of the treasury with copies of audits of the accounts and…	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

12 against the Senate's Speaker; 7 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: Bill Powers
Date	Bill and motion	Their vote	Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate	Most of their party
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	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
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 1603: As enacted, clarifies that if marijuana is rescheduled or deleted as a controlled substance under federal law, the commissioner is prohibited from… 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	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
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)
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	Nay	Nay	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	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	Yea	Nay (split)	Yea
April 7, 2025	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… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	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
Feb. 27, 2025	SB 109: As enacted, authorizes a certified municipal finance officer who is contracted with a municipality to provide financial oversight on behalf of the… Motion to Reconsider	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)

Every roll call

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

Every roll call: Bill Powers
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.bill.powers@capitol.tn.gov
Capitol office: Room 772, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-2374

Committees

Select Calendar Chair
Education First vice chair
Finance, Ways and Means
Select Ethics
Transportation and Safety

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.