Tennessee Senate · District 13
Dawn White
Where they sit
Every current senator, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.
Dawn White'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
Running for Tennessee Senate District 13.
Also on the ballot: Angela Evans Wynn (Democratic)
The scores
How these numbers work →Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Dawn White.
Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Dawn White.
Bills
The bills Dawn White sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.
| Statewide | Local | |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 54 | 1 |
| Passed both chambers | 26 | 1 |
| Became law | 26 | 1 |
| Vetoed by the Governor | 0 | 0 |
Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 18 of 33 in the Senate · 18 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 677 As enacted, requires the department to provide at least one professional development course that provides asynchronous instruction on the use of artificial… |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2407 As enacted, clarifies that certain individuals who have not completed the amount of clinical practice required by the educator preparation provider in which… |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2404 As enacted, creates an early educator workforce development resource task force. |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2403 As enacted, makes various revisions to education law, including, but not limited to, requiring each public school to annually submit to the department of… |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2145 As enacted, allows a person to file a petition for a lifetime order of protection against a person who was convicted of certain offenses in another… |
Statewide | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2659 As enacted, requires a person or entity that makes telephone solicitations using an automated telephone dialing system to delivery artificial or prerecorded… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 2408 |
May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2141 As enacted, removes various dates by which various reports must be submitted by various entities; makes various changes to the Tennessee student assistance… |
Statewide | Became law | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 2106 As enacted, prohibits an educator from engaging in any sexually related behavior with certain students enrolled, graduated, or withdrawn from school; requires… |
Statewide | Became law | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1738 As enacted, exempts a military service member who is stationed out of state on military orders from paying the additional registration fee imposed on… |
Statewide | Became law | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1737 As enacted, creates the offense for a person to knowingly travel, with intent to commit theft of another person's cash, from a commercial business; a… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1668 |
May 15, 2026 |
| SB 2139 As enacted, revises the requirements for electronic participation in school board meetings under certain circumstances. |
Statewide | Became law | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2138 As enacted, requires a person convicted of vehicular homicide proximately resulting from the person's intoxication to be punished as no lower than a Range II… |
Statewide | Became law | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2720 Subject to local approval, repeals and reconstitutes provisions establishing the Rutherford County Highway Commission and County Highway Road Superintendent. |
Local | Became law passed as HB 2653 |
May 1, 2026 |
| SB 1569 As enacted, requires the department to conduct an annual education assessment of each inmate who is serving a period of confinement for committing a felony… |
Statewide | Became law | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 1582 As enacted, extends reporting deadline for the advisory committee on innovations in K-12 education from December 31, 2025, to June 1, 2026. |
Statewide | Became law | March 16, 2026 |
| SB 685 As enacted, revises present law relative to unlawful photography. |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 99 |
May 27, 2025 |
| SB 682 As enacted, makes various changes to the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 504 |
May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1020 As enacted, permits a public charter school authorized in the county local education agency for a county in which only one city school system operates to use… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 1162 |
May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1019 As enacted, requires the department to allocate the state share of the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula funds generated by student members… |
Statewide | Became law | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 688 As enacted, expands the state board's power to subpoena the appearance of persons or the production of items the chair of the state board, or the chair's… |
Statewide | Became law | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 678 As enacted, provides that if the victim in an aggravated sexual battery was less than 18 or was mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically… |
Statewide | Became law | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1018 As enacted, prohibits a county LEA or public charter school authorized to operate in a county LEA from charging registration fees, enrollment fees, or tuition… |
Statewide | Became law | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 690 As enacted, requires a public school under the jurisdiction of an LEA that offers students the opportunity to participate in interscholastic athletic… |
Statewide | Became law | April 30, 2025 |
| SB 680 As enacted, requires an LEA and public charter school that provides parents or guardians of K-12 students with information on immunizations, infectious… |
Statewide | Became law | April 30, 2025 |
| SB 689 As enacted, requires the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC), to serve as the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance… |
Statewide | Became law | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 1017 As enacted, authorizes issuance of a free distinguishing placard for eligible disabled veterans to be used in lieu of a distinguishing license plate for… |
Statewide | Became law | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 683 As enacted, authorizes a local education agency to implement the law enforcement against drugs and violence (L.E.A.D.) program in schools operated by the LEA… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 382 |
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
8 against the Senate's Speaker; 5 against most of their party.
Every roll call
How Dawn White 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.dawn.white@capitol.tn.gov
- Capitol office
- Room 744, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-6853
Committees
- Education 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