Tennessee Senate · District 18

Ferrell Haile

Republican

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Votes with the Senate's Speaker 95% On 286 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 1% 66 of 4,545 roll calls

Statewide bills passed 64 96 sponsored · 64 became law · Rank 3 of 33 in the Senate Local bills passed 3 4 sponsored · 3 became law

Where they sit

Every current senator, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.

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Ferrell Haile'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 conservative than 68% of the Tennessee Senate.

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11th most conservative of 33

The scores

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Votes with the Senate's Speaker

95%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Ferrell Haile.

On 286 contested votes where both voted99% on all 4,366 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

99%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Ferrell Haile.

On 308 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 Ferrell Haile sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.

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Bills: Ferrell Haile
	Statewide	Local
Sponsored	96	4
Passed both chambers	64	3
Became law	64	3
Vetoed by the Governor	0	0

Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 3 of 33 in the Senate · 3 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: Ferrell Haile
Bill	Type	Result	Final action
SB 2320 As enacted, clarifies that expenditures of campaign funds to enhance security for an officeholder's personal residence are not deemed for personal use and…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2136 As enacted, clarifies that gambling, the operation or possession of gambling devices, and the operation, conducting, or commercial promoting of online…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1992 As enacted, creates a Class E felony offense when a person, for the purpose of deriving a pecuniary benefit, engages in conduct intended to influence the…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 198 As enacted, authorizes, until June 30, 2041, a county or municipality that levies a property tax to pay a property tax refund owed to a taxpayer through…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1762 As enacted, authorizes the establishment of adult public charter schools, which are defined as public charter schools that exclusively serve students who are…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1490 As enacted, authorizes local historical boards to lease land owned or managed by such boards for agricultural purposes, with all proceeds received by the…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2161 As enacted, removes the requirement to place a defendant on a state or federal list or database as a fugitive from justice for failure to appear, unless it is…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2374	May 26, 2026
SB 1939 As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2026."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1867	May 26, 2026
SB 502 As enacted, expands the scope of practice for athletic trainers by authorizing them to treat conditions that limit or prevent a person's participation in…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 2533 As enacted, requires the Tennessee opioid abatement council to allocate funds held in the opioid abatement fund in a certain manner.	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1816	May 18, 2026
SB 2133 As enacted, adds starvation resulting in death of a livestock animal to the types of conduct that constitute the Class E felony of aggravated cruelty to a…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 1945 As enacted, allows the court to temporarily revoke a defendant's bond and order the defendant held without bail for no more than 10 days pending a bail…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 1584 As enacted, lowers the age of an inpatient from 65 to 50 or older when a hospital, each year from October 1 through March 1, must offer immunization against…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2569	May 18, 2026
SB 1495 As enacted, adds Alvogen, Inc., Apotex Corp., and Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. to the list of companies that may be released by the attorney general for…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 2323 As enacted, increases the amount of products containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine a person may purchase in a one-year period from 43.2 grams to 61.2 grams…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2101	May 5, 2026
SB 2210 As enacted, requires the clerks of the criminal courts to provide the Tennessee sheriffs' association with all court data necessary for the administration of…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2221	May 5, 2026
SB 2201 As enacted, specifies that if a student is referred to juvenile court for being unlawfully absent from school and is ultimately adjudicated to be unruly, that…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 2165 As enacted, requires the department of children's services to provide a copy of a petition to terminate parental rights for a child in the custody of the…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 1931 As enacted, requires the department of education to annually collect and report certain data for opportunity public charter schools on the department's…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 1751 As enacted, clarifies that a court may waive the requirement for a home study in an adoption when the prospective adoptive parent or parents are not related…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1692	May 5, 2026
SB 2324 As enacted, revises various provisions regarding children, including requiring a parent educational seminar in certain juvenile cases.	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 1720 As enacted, generally makes the addresses on a nominating petition for the office of judge, chancellor, district attorney general, and public defender…	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 2219 As enacted, requires each juvenile court, through the juvenile court clerk or juvenile court staff, each month within the statewide juvenile case management…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2026
SB 591 As enacted, clarifies, for purposes of criminal offenses relative to threats of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity or failing to…	Statewide	Became law	April 28, 2026
SB 400 As enacted, requires the department to develop guidance for Tennessee accelerating literacy and learning corps (TALLC) members on how to align tutoring…	Statewide	Became law	April 28, 2026
SB 1753 As enacted, adds clinical informatics, lifestyle medicine, and medical virtualist to the list of words or abbreviations that a person may attach to a name to…	Statewide	Became law	April 28, 2026
SB 1581 As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to respite care services, including, but not limited to, increasing the number of hours an adult may attend…	Statewide	Became law	April 28, 2026
SB 1683 As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Child Care Hosting Safe Harbor Act."	Statewide	Became law	April 27, 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…	Statewide	Became law	April 27, 2026
SB 1099 As enacted, clarifies that all privilege taxes on litigation that clerks of certain courts fail to collect and pay to the department of revenue are debts of…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 878	April 27, 2026
SB 1605 As enacted, expands the goals of zero to three court programs to include cases involving children five years of age or younger, with priority given to cases…	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
SB 1589 As enacted, authorizes the Tennessee corrections institute to establish certification requirements for corrections officers and to inspect and certify local…	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
SB 1482 Subject to local approval, deletes provisions requiring a referendum to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the city's water or light plant.	Local	Became law passed as HB 1453	April 6, 2026
SB 1457 Subject to local approval, deletes obsolete and superseded provisions of the city charter.	Local	Became law passed as HB 1431	June 4, 2025
SB 1453 Subject to local approval, removes charter provision restricting appointed officers from being employed outside of city business hours.	Local	Became law passed as HB 1424	June 4, 2025
SB 901 As enacted, extends the school turnaround pilot program for priority schools administered by the department and that is scheduled to conclude at the end of…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1373	May 27, 2025
SB 1245 As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to bondsmen.	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 576	May 27, 2025
SB 416 As enacted, requires the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission, in consultation with the department of education, to develop a plan…	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 262 As enacted, increases the age of an infant from 14 days or younger to 45 days or younger who can be received by a facility without the mother being subject to…	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 1002 As enacted, specifies that the privilege tax exemption for subsidiaries of agricultural cooperatives applies without regard to whether the subsidiary was…	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 48 As enacted, adds Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc., Indivior Inc., Viatris Inc., and Purdue…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 252 As enacted, sets the maximum award of compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act of 1976 at 105% of the national average of the maximum…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 245 As enacted, expands the proceedings for which a district attorney general pro tem may be appointed to include certain civil proceedings; declares meetings of…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 1237 As enacted, requires every bondsman licensed in this state to file a quarterly report with the department of revenue detailing the total number of bonds…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 1116 As enacted, requires certain records or papers for a person relating to the adoption or attempted adoption of a person in the possession of the office of the…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 1114 As enacted, deletes the automatic repeal on July 1, 2025, of a provision that authorizes records custodians to seek an injunction against a person who makes…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 1052 As enacted, specifies that a biological father or alleged biological father who makes token financial support to or for the benefit of a child or the child's…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 1015 As enacted, requires the department of children's services, to the extent not otherwise prohibited by state or federal law, to promulgate rules to implement…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 1005 As enacted, allows petitioners to include all children in one adoption petition if the petitioners are seeking to adopt more than one child at the same time…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 895 As enacted, makes various changes and additions to the Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act, and to present law concerning parental consent for the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 826	May 8, 2025
SB 129 As enacted, increases, from $4 billion to $5 billion, the maximum aggregate principal amount for which the agency may issue bonds and notes at any one time.	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 331	May 8, 2025
SB 41 As enacted, prohibits a provider of certain services from billing a consumer for an extra billing cycle if the consumer terminates the contract or agreement…	Statewide	Became law	May 2, 2025
SB 304 As enacted, permits the introduction into evidence of a video recording of a child victim being interviewed by a forensic interviewer regarding sexual or…	Statewide	Became law	May 2, 2025
SB 992 As enacted, requires the administrative office of the courts to maintain a criminal justice information services compliant centralized statewide juvenile case…	Statewide	Became law	April 30, 2025
SB 955 As enacted, enacts the "Medical Ethics Defense Act."	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 916 As enacted, expands the definition of "racketeering activity" to include committing, conspiring to commit, aiding, attempting to aid, soliciting, coercing…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 576 As enacted, revises present law relative to the annual coverage assessment.	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 299 As enacted, changes the qualifications for membership on the medical cannabis commission to include a patient caregiver and a subject matter expert with…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 909 As enacted, requires a buyer engaged in wholesaling real property to disclose certain information related to the buyer's equitable interest in the real…	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2025
SB 797 As enacted, clarifies that full-time employees of the general assembly are eligible for a waiver of tuition and fees for purposes of continuing education for…	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2025
SB 577 As enacted, makes revisions regarding determining when the annual coverage assessment is implemented and imposed; sets limits on the expenditures for directed…	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2025
SB 988 As enacted, requires each department, agency, or official of a local government that assesses and collects a fee of more than $250 to document the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 375	April 4, 2025
SB 897 As enacted, requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to adopt a policy to prohibit students from using wireless…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 932	April 4, 2025
SB 39 As enacted, authorizes certain county legislative bodies, by a two-thirds vote, to remove any member of an appointed board or commission, if such removal is…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 56	April 4, 2025
SB 247 As enacted, clarifies that property that is qualified as agricultural, forest land, or open space land, owned by two individuals, and held under the titles of…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 297	April 4, 2025
SB 297 As enacted, extends the time within which the guardian for an adoptee who is less than 13 may apply for a lifetime sportsman license for adopted children from…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 752	March 31, 2025
SB 6006 (2025 X1) As enacted, creates the Tennessee transportation financing authority to provide financing and refinancing for the development, maintenance, and improvement of…	Statewide	Became law	Feb. 25, 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; 5 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: Ferrell Haile
Date	Bill and motion	Their vote	Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate	Most of their party
April 22, 2026	SB 2452: As enacted, authorizes the consumption of alcoholic beverages and beer on the premises of a temporary special event zone located in Davidson County, subject… Concurrence	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (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	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
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 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	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
Feb. 26, 2026	SB 192: As enacted, requires a manufacturer's license for the manufacturing of alcoholic spiritous beverages or vintage alcoholic beverages issued to or renewed by a… 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	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	Nay	Nay	Yea (split)
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 Ferrell Haile voted on each of the 4,545 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.

Every roll call: Ferrell Haile
Date	Vote	Their vote	Most of their party	Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate	Yeas–nays
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Contact, committees and caucuses

Contact

Official page: wapp.capitol.tn.gov
Email: sen.ferrell.haile@capitol.tn.gov
Capitol office: Room 708, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-1999

Committees

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Finance, Ways and Means
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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