Tennessee Senate · District 31
Brent Taylor
Republican
Votes with the Senate's Speaker
96%
On 295 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
0.1%
6 of 4,545 roll calls
Statewide bills passed
56
116 sponsored · 56 became law · Rank 4 of 33 in the Senate
Local bills passed
2
2 sponsored · 2 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
Brent Taylor'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 Senate94thpercentile
More conservative than 93% of the Tennessee Senate.
Most liberalMost conservative
3rd most conservative of 33
On the November 3 ballot
Running for Tennessee Senate District 31.
Also on the ballot: David Weatherspoon (Democratic)
The scores
How these numbers work →Votes with the Senate's Speaker
96%
Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Brent Taylor.
On 295 contested votes where both voted99% on all 4,425 votes where both voted
Votes with own party
99%
Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Brent Taylor.
On 315 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 Brent Taylor sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.
| Statewide | Local | |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 116 | 2 |
| Passed both chambers | 56 | 2 |
| Became law | 56 | 2 |
| Vetoed by the Governor | 0 | 0 |
Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 4 of 33 in the Senate · 4 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 855 As enacted, establishes a process for a municipality that operates a sewerage system outside of its corporate boundaries and has imposed a moratorium on new… |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 714 As enacted, requires an educational oversight board to be created for an LEA that meets certain criteria and is established to annually conduct a… |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2729 Subject to local approval, changes the conditions under which the occupancy tax will no longer be levied; changes the allocation of the revenue from the… |
Local | Became law passed as HB 2666 |
May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2265 As enacted, makes various changes relative to the offense of organized retail crime. |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2213 As enacted, requires a utility to provide material that is required for construction of utility infrastructure for the customer's or approved contractor's use… |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 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… |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2057 As enacted, clarifies that a utility system providing waste water service must provide a connection if certain criteria are met. |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1826 As enacted, authorizes emergency communications district boards of directors to participate in board meetings electronically under the open meetings law. |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2405 As enacted, establishes a Tennessee safe initiative task force, which is administratively attached to the Tennessee bureau of investigation. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2157 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2191 As enacted, authorizes a political subdivision to enter into a cost-sharing agreement with a developer for the development of certain public infrastructure. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2386 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2101 As enacted, revises law relative to commercial litigation financiers and litigation financing contracts. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2108 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 1985 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 passed as HB 1970 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 1486 As enacted, requires a memorandum of understanding entered between certain law enforcement agencies and federal officials concerning enforcement of federal… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2018 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2128 As enacted, generally prohibits a municipality or electric utility to pay or absorb the cost of electrical infrastructure incurred to serve a data center… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1847 |
May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1983 As enacted, revises standards for the length of the redemption period for a property subject to a tax sale based on whether the period of delinquency is three… |
Statewide | Became law | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1889 As enacted, adds certain language comprehension requirements for certain driver licenses; requires documentation as a U.S. citizen or lawfully permitted in… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1708 |
May 18, 2026 |
| SB 846 As enacted, enacts the "Violent Criminal Court Act." |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1268 |
May 15, 2026 |
| SB 676 As enacted, revises law relative to gender clinics and related services. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 754 |
May 15, 2026 |
| SB 1708 As enacted, makes various changes related to entities seeking to secure the release of a defendant. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1450 |
May 15, 2026 |
| SB 1467 As enacted, enacts "The Memphis Safe Task Force Accountability Act." |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1484 |
May 15, 2026 |
| SB 671 As enacted, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 555 |
May 14, 2026 |
| SB 443 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 passed as HB 483 |
May 14, 2026 |
| SB 225 As enacted, requires certain insurers to reimburse chiropractic physicians at the same rate as physicians for the same services. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 29 |
May 14, 2026 |
| SB 712 As enacted, prohibits an LEA or public charter school from using public funds to initiate or maintain any civil action or proceeding against this state or an… |
Statewide | Became law | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2212 As enacted, extends the period for the estate of an emergency responder killed in the line of duty from three years from the date of death to the later of… |
Statewide | Became law | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 1473 As enacted, prohibits a municipality from remediating a property maintenance violation if the cost may negatively impact the municipality's financial… |
Statewide | Became law | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 1930 As enacted, requires a person convicted of second degree murder by knowingly killing another to be sentenced as no lower than a Range II offender. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1871 |
April 24, 2026 |
| SB 2258 As enacted, requires a local education agency that installs cameras on the exterior of school buses for the purpose of recording images of motor vehicles that… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2356 |
April 23, 2026 |
| SB 273 As enacted, clarifies that a school employee does not commit the criminal offense of falsifying educational and academic documents for altering, creating, or… |
Statewide | Became law | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 2255 As enacted, requires the bureau of TennCare to biannually publish two comprehensive statewide data reports on the use of psychotropic medications and the… |
Statewide | Became law | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 218 As enacted, establishes a presumption that a defendant should not be released on the defendant’s personal recognizance if the defendant is charged with a… |
Statewide | Became law | March 30, 2026 |
| SB 717 As enacted, clarifies that prior to the acquisition of assets of a natural gas utility regulated by the Tennessee public utility commission by a new owner or… |
Statewide | Became law | March 16, 2026 |
| SB 674 As enacted, clarifies that the general assembly preempts and occupies the entire field of regulating the terms and conditions of employment; prohibits local… |
Statewide | Became law | March 16, 2026 |
| SB 384 As enacted, requires a hotel operator to remit the hotel tax to the municipality when a person has maintained occupancy for 30 continuous days and to cease… |
Statewide | Became law | June 4, 2025 |
| SB 1439 Subject to local approval, makes the office of mayor a full-time position, with the salary of the office to be set by ordinance. |
Local | Became law passed as HB 1416 |
June 4, 2025 |
| SB 1336 As enacted, authorizes a local legislative body for a county that has adopted a charter form of government to require elections for the county board of… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1383 |
May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1139 As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to utilities. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 542 |
May 27, 2025 |
| SB 857 As enacted, authorizes any county having made loans in excess of the amount of funds in the initial capitalization of the loan fund pool for the county to… |
Statewide | Became law | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 670 As enacted, requires the division of water resources in the department of environment and conservation, in collaboration with U.S. army corps of engineers, as… |
Statewide | Became law | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 392 As enacted, creates the offense of human smuggling; makes related changes. |
Statewide | Became law | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 239 As enacted, requires TACIR to study the availability of housing and other treatment facilities for juvenile offenders who have been adjudicated delinquent and… |
Statewide | Became law | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 221 As enacted, permits a court to use juvenile court records, including the disposition and evidence, in pretrial reports used to set bond for certain criminal… |
Statewide | Became law | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 1138 As enacted, prohibits a municipal sewer system or utility district that has operated a sewerage system outside of the corporate boundaries of the city or town… |
Statewide | Became law | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 713 As enacted, requires each public senior high school to provide official recruiting representatives of the armed forces of this state and the United States… |
Statewide | Became law | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 227 As enacted, allows a charitable organization that provides housing to a person whom the charitable organization knows is unlawfully present in the United… |
Statewide | Became law | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 217 As enacted, requires the department to develop and implement a policy regarding the removal of personal property used for camping from the shoulder, berm, or… |
Statewide | Became law | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 664 As enacted, expands from wetlands to all areas that an aquatic resource alteration permit may apply to the areas for which the department of environment and… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 612 |
May 8, 2025 |
| SB 228 As enacted, enacts the "Law Enforcement’s Safer Tennessee Electronic Registration (LESTER) Act," which clarifies that law enforcement is required to accept a… |
Statewide | Became law | May 2, 2025 |
| SB 856 As enacted, allows a magistrate to consider hearsay evidence when determining whether a defendant should be released on bail pending trial and the amount of… |
Statewide | Became law | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 718 As enacted, requires a juvenile court conducting a child custody, detention, or adjudicatory proceeding to conduct the proceeding in a dedicated courtroom… |
Statewide | Became law | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 274 As enacted, declares that the offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, and trustee are the constitutional officers of a county that… |
Statewide | Became law | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 191 As enacted, redefines "local government" to include a water, wastewater, or energy authority for purposes of the present law applicable to bonds and notes… |
Statewide | Became law | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 238 As enacted, specifies that venue for prosecution of the offense of knowingly violating a condition of release is generally the county in which the conduct… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 78 |
April 28, 2025 |
| SB 715 As enacted, changes the way that the fair market value of an improvement care trust fund is calculated for certain purposes; clarifies that the fee that a… |
Statewide | Became law | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 669 As enacted, deletes all references to the world health organization; requires a pandemic to be declared by the federal centers for disease and prevention… |
Statewide | Became law | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 668 As enacted, removes the limitation that a death must have been anticipated for a registered nurse to make the actual determination and pronouncement of death… |
Statewide | Became law | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 224 As enacted, authorizes athletic trainers to use dry needling to carry out the practice of prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 62 |
April 8, 2025 |
| SB 240 As enacted, expands the offense of organized retail crime to include certain acts, including knowingly using an online marketplace or social media platform to… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 207 |
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
12 against the Senate's Speaker; 8 against most of their party.
Every roll call
How Brent Taylor 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.brent.taylor@capitol.tn.gov
- Capitol office
- Room 714, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-3036
Committees
- Commerce and Labor First vice chair
- Transportation and Safety Second vice chair
- Judiciary
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