Janice Bowling, Tennessee Senate District 16: 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

Janice Bowling'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 liberal than 53% of the Tennessee Senate.

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16th most liberal of 33

The scores

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Votes with the Senate's Speaker

90%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Janice Bowling.

On 288 contested votes where both voted99% on all 4,376 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

96%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Janice Bowling.

On 309 party-line votesPartisan rank: 23 of 33 in the Senate (tied with 3 others)22 senators vote with their party more often

Bills

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

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Bills: Janice Bowling
	Statewide	Local
Sponsored	87	4
Passed both chambers	18	4
Became law	18	4
Vetoed by the Governor	0	0

Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 24 of 33 in the Senate · 23 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: Janice Bowling
Bill	Type	Result	Final action
SB 1748 As enacted, revises law relative to out-of-service orders issued to commercial drivers and related penalties.	Statewide	Became law	June 18, 2026
SB 468 As enacted, enacts the "Riley Gaines Women's Safety and Protection Act."	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2730 Subject to local approval, creates the Southern Cumberland Plateau Regional Water and Wastewater Authority.	Local	Became law passed as HB 2667	May 27, 2026
SB 2726 Subject to local approval, allocates 3.8 percent of each annual operating budget, but not less than $1.5 million, to the maintenance of streets and roads…	Local	Became law passed as HB 2663	May 27, 2026
SB 2707 Subject to local approval, expands the board of public utilities' jurisdiction to wastewater treatment systems; requires the mayor to serve as a standing…	Local	Became law passed as HB 2643	May 27, 2026
SB 1747 As enacted, creates an offense of recklessly discharging a firearm into the air, ground, a body of water, or an object in close proximity to the person if the…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2566 As enacted, provides that a person commits the offense of grooming of a minor when the person engages in a course of grooming conduct directed at a minor with…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2317	May 26, 2026
SB 2481 As enacted, prohibits the issuance of a license to operate certain adult-oriented establishments unless certain signage is posted.	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2314	May 26, 2026
SB 1890 As enacted, requires, beginning with the next adoption of academic standards in the subject of social studies, the standards recommendation committee to…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 2483 As enacted, requires the department to conduct a study that includes an evaluation of county veterans service office resources; the identification of…	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 485 As enacted, requires certain procedures currently found in the federal Indian Child Welfare Act to be applied by courts in child custody proceedings involving…	Statewide	Became law	April 24, 2026
SB 1891 As enacted, allows a local board of education or public charter school governing body that has not received funding from the department for purposes of…	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
SB 1893 As enacted, requires a breastfeeding mother to be excused from jury service upon submitting to the jury coordinator a written request to be excused and a…	Statewide	Became law	March 23, 2026
SB 1440 Subject to local approval, extends the term of the current city judge by one year in order to have the election of the city judge coincide with the elections…	Local	Became law passed as HB 1417	June 4, 2025
SB 476 As enacted, requires, beginning August 1, 2027, each LEA and public charter school to prohibit food or beverage items that contain Allura Red AC, which is…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 134	May 27, 2025
SB 484 As enacted, adds certain conditions in order to produce and sell homemade food items.	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 1034 As enacted, includes in the definition of a "memorial", for purposes of Tennessee heritage protection, an official governmental seal of a city or county…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 1038 As enacted, increases the fee that county clerks and other agents are authorized to collect from purchases of hunting and fishing licenses from $1.00 to $3.00…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1060	May 8, 2025
SB 471 As enacted, establishes that family life curriculum must include age-appropriate instruction and evidence regarding the positive personal and societal…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 480 As enacted, deletes the definition of "blighted area" and defines "blighted property" for purposes of condemnation by housing authorities; clarifies that…	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2025
SB 472 As enacted, requires all residential educational programs in this state that allow minors to participate or to access residential facilities, including…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 64	April 4, 2025
SB 1031 As enacted, enacts the "Restore Trust in Public Health Messaging Act."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1157	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

29 against the Senate's Speaker; 22 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: Janice Bowling
Date	Bill and motion	Their vote	Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate	Most of their party
April 23, 2026	HB 2585: As introduced, states that the amount of damages awarded as noneconomic damages must not exceed $1 million in a health care liability action arising from… Final Passage	Yea	Present, not voting	Nay (split)
April 22, 2026	HB 1987: As enacted, revises law relative to alcoholic beverages. Final Passage	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	Yea	Yea	Nay (split)
April 16, 2026	HB 2532: As enacted, revises education law, including, but not limited to, increasing, from 25,000 to 35,000, the maximum number of education freedom scholarships that… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 16, 2026	HB 1913: As enacted, enacts the "Regulatory Freedom Act of 2026." Final Passage	Nay	Not voting	Yea (split)
April 15, 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… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 15, 2026	SB 1868: As enacted, requires a child placed in the custody of the department to remain in custody so long as necessary to complete treatment or services, which must… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (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
April 2, 2026	HB 2149: As enacted, authorizes an LEA or public charter school to continue a disciplinary investigation of a student who, during the investigation, withdraws from the… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
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
March 12, 2026	SB 2153: As enacted, authorizes the department to establish and administer an early childhood mental health home visiting program as a voluntary, evidence-based and… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 26, 2026	HB 618: As enacted, prohibits an individual holding an elected office of a local government from holding another elected office in this state at the same time… Final Passage	Nay	Not voting	Yea (split)
Feb. 9, 2026	SB 587: As introduced, requires the department to establish and administer a pilot program for the placement of hygiene vending machines that dispense feminine… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 22, 2025	HB 1093: As enacted, expands the definition of "machine gun" to include any part, or combination of parts, designed and intended solely for use in converting a firearm… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 21, 2025	HJR 100: Urges the Tennessee opioid abatement council and each participating county to allocate 25 percent of approved expenditures from the opioid abatement fund to… Concurrence	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 21, 2025	HB 576: As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to bondsmen. Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 17, 2025	HB 1376: As enacted, provides for the regulation of the manufacturing, supplying, wholesale distribution, and retail sale of hemp-derived cannabinoid products by the… 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 14, 2025	SB 614: As introduced, requires, if a local government adopts a budget that includes the required maintenance of effort for education funding but fails to appropriate… 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
April 7, 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… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 3, 2025	SB 527: As introduced, specifies that a manufacturer or seller of a pesticide registered with the commissioner of agriculture and with the environmental protection… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 31, 2025	SB 763: As enacted, requires the department of revenue to maintain a directory on its website that lists all vapor products certified as authorized to be sold in this… 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 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 13, 2025	SB 207: As enacted, establishes a fund for the development and implementation of programs that benefit Tennesseans by preserving farmland and forestland, including a… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 13, 2025	HB 56: 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… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (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 Janice Bowling voted on each of the 4,545 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.

Every roll call: Janice Bowling
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.janice.bowling@capitol.tn.gov
Capitol office: Room 718, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-6694

Committees

Government Operations Second vice chair
Government Operations Second vice chair
Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources

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.