Joey Hensley, Tennessee Senate District 28: 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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Joey Hensley'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 78% of the Tennessee Senate.

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8th most conservative of 33

The scores

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Votes with the Senate's Speaker

87%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Joey Hensley.

On 290 contested votes where both voted98% on all 4,403 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

94%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Joey Hensley.

On 310 party-line votesPartisan rank: 30 of 33 in the Senate (tied with 1 other)29 senators vote with their party more often

Bills

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

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Bills: Joey Hensley
	Statewide	Local
Sponsored	116	0
Passed both chambers	37	0
Became law	37	0
Vetoed by the Governor	0	0

Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 13 of 33 in the Senate · 13 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: Joey Hensley
Bill	Type	Result	Final action
SB 821 As enacted, establishes a pilot program that provides grants to local education agencies to advance substance abuse and violence prevention programs.	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 599 As enacted, terminates the James K. Polk Memorial Association and requires the Tennessee historical commission to enter into good faith negotiations for the…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2385 As enacted, requires the TISA review committee to study and include in its annual report recommendations for how this state may revise the ways in which it…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2485	May 27, 2026
SB 2318 As enacted, allows private postsecondary institutions, including those that are religiously affiliated, to operate a public charter school; allows such…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1847 As enacted, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property.	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2388 As enacted, revises present law that authorizes the attorney general to bring an action to enforce compliance with the Tennessee Abortion-Inducing Drug Risk…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2369	May 26, 2026
SB 1912 As enacted, requires each LEA and public charter school to adopt an internet acceptable use policy; makes other related changes.	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1886	May 26, 2026
SB 2412 As enacted, revises present law that authorizes the attorney general to bring an action to enforce compliance with the Tennessee Abortion-Inducing Drug Risk…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 2375 As enacted, revises law concerning math education; requires the state board of education, in developing and adopting a uniform grading system for students in…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 2366 As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners to issue a provisional foreign training license of two years, which may be extended for an additional one…	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 2352 As enacted, states that if the possession of a handgun is restricted or prohibited at a county courthouse, then the sheriff of the county may provide secure…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2376	May 18, 2026
SB 1717 As enacted, creates a criminal offense of knowingly violating a no contact order issued as part of a defendant's sentence or conditions of probation or parole…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1624	May 15, 2026
SB 1716 As enacted, expands the prescribed forms of epinephrine that an LEA or nonpublic school is authorized to administer when a student is believed to be…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1550	May 15, 2026
SB 1940 As enacted, designates January 22 of each year as "Sanctity of Life Day."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1784	May 5, 2026
SB 2371 As enacted, clarifies that tenure and the process for dismissing a nontenured, licensed employee by a director of schools does not apply to individuals who…	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 2354 As enacted, authorizes a person to possess a raccoon without the payment of the $150 personal possession permit fee if the raccoon is obtained from a legal…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2026
SB 2310 As enacted, requires each LEA and public charter school serving students in any of the grades K–5 to adopt a policy governing the age-appropriate and…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2026
SB 2391 As enacted, designates October 11 of each year to be observed as "General Pulaski Memorial Day."	Statewide	Became law	April 13, 2026
SB 990 As enacted, defines, for purposes of the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act, a "private employer" as any person who is required by federal law and regulations to…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1194	March 30, 2026
SB 1942 As enacted, designates the third Sunday in June of each year as "Fathers' Day."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1481	March 30, 2026
SB 1718 As enacted, designates November 2nd of each year as "James K. Polk Day."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1479	March 30, 2026
SB 659 As enacted, increases, from two to four, the number of temporary sales periods that a bona fide religious institution may participate in and be exempt from…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 594	May 27, 2025
SB 871 As enacted, directs TACIR to conduct a study and prepare a report on recommendations on the continuum of care in this state and how the continuum of care can…	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 869 As enacted, creates a bait privilege license to allow hunting or taking of whitetail deer using bait on privately owned or privately leased land.	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 160 As enacted, requires TACIR to study the economic impact on local jurisdictions that are required to provide ambulance services and emergency and non-emergency…	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 870 As enacted, requires the department to conduct a landscape analysis of teacher evaluation practices in this state and other states; requires the department to…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 827 As enacted, prohibits the state board of education from requiring a private school that provides a fully online, self-paced educational program to comply with…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 657 As enacted, adds organized retail crime and possession or employment of a firearm during the commission of or attempt to commit a dangerous felony to the…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 263 As enacted, prohibits the enforcement and recognition of requirements or mandates issued by the World Health Organization, United Nations, or World Economic…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 161 As enacted, requires each board of education for an LEA that operates at least one high school to adopt and implement a policy to authorize a high school…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 158 As enacted, increases, from 130 minutes per full school week to 40 minutes per school day, the minimum amount of physical activity required for elementary…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 1360 As enacted, removes the ability to bring a civil liability action for negligence per se against a seller of a qualified product; expands "qualified products"…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 1003 As enacted, requires, if an approved universal reading screener is administered to pre-k students at an LEA or public charter school, the LEA or public…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 660 As enacted, authorizes a county clerk, during a period of a public health emergency, natural disaster, or other temporary office closure, to request the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 737	April 28, 2025
SB 495 As enacted, authorizes a city incorporated under a city manager-commission charter to contract with a private entity for the development, construction…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 65	April 28, 2025
SB 1410 As enacted, increases from 20 to 30, the maximum number of consecutive days a substitute teacher may substitute for a regular teacher on leave without having…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1253	April 28, 2025
SB 267 As enacted, clarifies that an additional license for a collection station is not required, without regard to where specimens are transported, as long as the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 702	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

37 against the Senate's Speaker; 40 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: Joey Hensley
Date	Bill and motion	Their vote	Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate	Most of their party
April 23, 2026	HB 2175: As enacted, requires a delivery network company or delivery network company driver to comply with certain automobile liability insurance requirements. Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
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 22, 2026	SB 1585: As enacted, revises the assessment testing requirements for students who participate in the education savings account (ESA) program. Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 22, 2026	HB 1987: As enacted, revises law relative to alcoholic beverages. Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 22, 2026	HB 1668: 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… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 21, 2026	SJR 1030: Arab American Heritage Month Adoption	Nay	Not voting	Yea (split)
April 21, 2026	SB 1672: As enacted, creates the joint capital tourism board; makes other related changes. 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 2502: 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… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	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 13, 2026	SB 2205: As enacted, enacts the "Subterranean Transportation Infrastructure Coordination Act." Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 9, 2026	SB 1728: As enacted, clarifies that the general assembly occupies the entire field of the regulation of shopping carts, including their purchase, use, taxation… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
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	SB 997: As introduced, specifies circumstances in which a referendum will not be required to effectuate annexation of territory; removes repealer provision for… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (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	Nay	Nay	Yea (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… Motion to Table Amendment	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 2, 2026	SJR 551: Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee to change the date of elections for judicial and other civil officers… Adoption	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 30, 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… 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	Nay	Nay	Yea (split)
March 19, 2026	SB 2441: As enacted, requires an LEA to close a virtual school not meeting certain requirements for continued operation; requires the department of education to… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
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 5, 2026	SB 1591: As introduced, imposes state and local litigation taxes on a person who violates the prohibition against using a wireless telecommunications device or… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 26, 2026	SB 1681: As enacted, prohibits a hospital emergency department, including a satellite emergency department, from denying to a woman who presents at such facility and… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
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)
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. 12, 2026	HB 940: As enacted, generally increases from 12 to 14, the age that a person must be to lawfully operate a personal watercraft upon the waters of Tennessee without… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	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 22, 2025	HB 773: As enacted, specifies that the website where legal notices must be posted must not require a fee or a subscription for a person to view the website; makes… 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 17, 2025	HB 1330: As enacted, enacts the "Less is More Act of 2025." 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	Nay	Nay	Yea (split)
April 16, 2025	SJR 48: Ratifies the increase of the 911 surcharge rate to $1.86 as approved by the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board. Adoption	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 14, 2025	SB 449: As enacted, enacts the "Fertility Treatment and Contraceptive Protection Act." Concurrence	Nay	Not voting	Yea (split)
April 14, 2025	SB 308: As enacted, establishes new premier type tourist resorts, urban park centers, and museums that can offer liquor by the drink; makes certain clarifications… 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 9, 2025	SB 799: As enacted, generally requires statewide political parties to nominate their candidates in primary elections for all offices for which partisan elections are… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 20, 2025	SB 44: As introduced, adds doula services performed by a person with a verification of certification to the list of services that may be provided as medical… Final Passage	Nay	Not voting	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	Nay	Nay	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 694: As enacted, increases, from 30 to 36 percent per annum, the maximum permitted effective rate of interest that may be contracted for by an industrial loan and… 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 Joey Hensley voted on each of the 4,545 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.

Every roll call: Joey Hensley
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.joey.hensley@capitol.tn.gov
Capitol office: Room 742, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-3100

Committees

Finance, Ways and Means Second vice chair
Education
Health and Welfare
Pensions

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.