Tennessee Senate · District 11
Bo Watson
Republican
Votes with the Senate's Speaker
94%
On 282 contested votes where both voted · 99% on all votes
Votes with own party
99%
Partisan rank: 4 of 33 in the Senate (tied with 9 others)
Didn't vote at roll call
7%
330 of 4,545 roll calls
Statewide bills passed
42
90 sponsored · 42 became law · Rank 10 of 33 in the Senate
Local bills passed
1
1 sponsored · 1 became law
Where they sit
Every current senator, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.
← Most liberalThe aisleMost conservative →
Votes with DemocratsCrosses party linesVotes with Republicans
Bo Watson'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 Senate100thpercentile
More conservative than 100% of the Tennessee Senate.
Most liberalMost conservative
Most conservative of 33
On the November 3 ballot
Running for Tennessee Senate District 11.
Also on the ballot: Tim Roberts (Democratic)
The scores
How these numbers work →Votes with the Senate's Speaker
94%
Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Bo Watson.
On 282 contested votes where both voted99% on all 4,108 votes where both voted
Votes with own party
99%
Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Bo Watson.
On 300 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 Bo Watson sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.
| Statewide | Local | |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 90 | 1 |
| Passed both chambers | 42 | 1 |
| Became law | 42 | 1 |
| Vetoed by the Governor | 0 | 0 |
Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 10 of 33 in the Senate · 10 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
| Bill | Type | Result | Final action |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB 2317 As enacted, requires the department of education to implement a pilot program to evaluate whether administering fewer district- and state-mandated assessments… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2422 |
May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2166 As enacted, clarifies that the service of transmitting money from a location originating in this state to a location outside of the United States or its… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2502 |
May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2061 As enacted, establishes the children's digital protection fund within the state treasury. |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2413 As enacted, specifies that a good faith disclosure of information related to an activity of a quality improvement committee (QIC) made by a healthcare… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2259 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2351 As enacted, makes various changes and additions to present law concerning public education. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2177 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2316 As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the board of directors of the Tennessee Technology Development Corporation. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2178 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2160 As enacted, authorizes counties with a metropolitan form of government, by resolution of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2186 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2157 As enacted, requires the department of tourist development to promulgate rules designating tourism development zones in this state as economic protection… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2366 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2081 As enacted, expands the prohibition, from stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer or metastatic blood cancer to any cancer, against a health benefit plan that… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1956 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2072 As enacted, enacts the "Better Spending, Better Schools Act of 2026." |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2121 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2062 As enacted, enacts the "Promising Futures Act." |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1979 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2414 As enacted, provides that any certificate of public advantage in effect on June 30, 2028, automatically expires but any pricing restrictions in a certificate… |
Statewide | Became law | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 2159 As enacted, caps at $10 million per fiscal year the total amount of funds in the lottery for education account that may be transferred to the Tennessee… |
Statewide | Became law | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 2083 As enacted, increases from three to five the maximum number of nonrelated persons in a home for the aged to be considered a tier 1 home for the aged… |
Statewide | Became law | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1369 As enacted, revises law relative to the operation of acute care hospitals. |
Statewide | Became law | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 211 As enacted, authorizes an entity designated to operate a stadium designed to host games of an intercollegiate football team that competes in the NCAA Division… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 397 |
May 14, 2026 |
| SB 2076 As enacted, redefines the practice of optometry. |
Statewide | Became law | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 1398 As enacted, limits the authority of a special purpose corporation to negotiate and enter into PILOT agreements with the corporation's lessees, as delegated to… |
Statewide | Became law | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2348 As enacted, requires the state board of education, in consultation with the department of education, to qualify an advanced degree in media and technology as… |
Statewide | Became law | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 2158 As enacted, revises and clarifies procedures of the joint committee on ways and means, including authorizing the committee to issue notice that a hearing will… |
Statewide | Became law | May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2079 As enacted, divides the appointing authority for the nine voting members of the Tennessee higher education commission among the governor, the speaker of the… |
Statewide | Became law | May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2070 As enacted, enacts the "Stopping Health Insurers from Excluding Legal Decisions (SHIELD) Act." |
Statewide | Became law | May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2065 As enacted, removes requirement that persons seeking licensure as speech language pathologists be members of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. |
Statewide | Became law | May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2077 As enacted, makes various changes to the TISA review committee, including, but not limited to, clarifying that the committee may convene a meeting with a… |
Statewide | Became law | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 2069 As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee K-9 Emergency Medical Care and Transport Act." |
Statewide | Became law | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 1979 As enacted, requires each LEA and public charter school to administer the Presidential Fitness Test to students to assess their strength, endurance, and… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1466 |
March 23, 2026 |
| SB 2073 As enacted, designates the month of April as "Tennessee Native Plant Month." |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1738 |
March 16, 2026 |
| SB 1462 Subject to local approval, repeals and replaces in its entirety the city's private act charter. |
Local | Became law passed as HB 1439 |
June 4, 2025 |
| SB 1426 As enacted, enacts "Lucca's Law," which addresses TennCare coverage of treatment for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 411 |
May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1390 As enacted, directs the director to establish an additional PACE program as a pilot in one of the two grand divisions where a PACE program did not exist in… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 782 |
May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1382 As enacted, revises law relative to the treatment and coverage of treatment for stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer, blood cancer, metastatic blood cancer, and… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 858 |
May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1381 As enacted, authorizes local governments to regulate sober living homes for recovery from alcohol, drug, and substance abuse to the extent such regulation… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 783 |
May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1366 As enacted, establishes a process for reviewing requests for federal aid. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1092 |
May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1359 As enacted, authorizes, subject to appropriation, an institution of higher education to request to redirect the institution's capital outlay funds for… |
Statewide | Became law | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 1388 As enacted, requires the department to establish a process by which management of a public property may submit formal complaints regarding the conduct or… |
Statewide | Became law | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1384 As enacted, creates the enhanced armed guard registration that may be obtained upon completion of certain training and other requirements by an armed security… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 683 |
May 8, 2025 |
| SB 248 As enacted, creates the offense of an occupant of a vehicle parking, leaving standing, or stopping the vehicle on a street or highway and blocking or impeding… |
Statewide | Became law | May 2, 2025 |
| SB 1368 As enacted, adds the executive director of the commission to the statutorily prescribed selection process for chief executive officers of public institutions… |
Statewide | Became law | April 30, 2025 |
| SB 1385 As enacted, requires a medical laboratory supervisor to be readily available for consultations during all hours when tests are performed; prohibits a medical… |
Statewide | Became law | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 1379 As enacted, allows a child care agency to lease or purchase underutilized property from local education agencies; classifies a child care family home as… |
Statewide | Became law | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 1377 As enacted, enacts the "Voluntary Portable Benefit Plan Act"; makes related changes. |
Statewide | Became law | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 1374 As enacted, authorizes a motor vehicle operated by an emergency communications district that is marked as a mobile command vehicle or mobile communications… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1118 |
April 4, 2025 |
| SB 282 As enacted, enacts the "Individualized Investigational Treatment Act." |
Statewide | Became law | March 28, 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
17 against the Senate's Speaker; 16 against most of their party.
Every roll call
How Bo Watson voted on each of the 4,545 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.
| 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
- sen.bo.watson@capitol.tn.gov
- Capitol office
- Room 706, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-3227
Committees
- Finance, Ways and Means Chair
- Select Rules Chair
- Pensions Vice chair
- Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Commerce and Labor
- Fiscal Review
- Health and Welfare
- Ways and Means
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