John Stevens, Tennessee Senate District 24: 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

John Stevens'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 Senate97thpercentile

More conservative than 96% of the Tennessee Senate.

Most liberalMost conservative

2nd most conservative of 33

The scores

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Votes with the Senate's Speaker

93%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is John Stevens.

On 282 contested votes where both voted99% on all 4,360 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

98%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is John Stevens.

On 300 party-line votesPartisan rank: 14 of 33 in the Senate (tied with 5 others)13 senators vote with their party more often

Bills

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

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Bills: John Stevens
	Statewide	Local
Sponsored	62	12
Passed both chambers	39	11
Became law	39	11
Vetoed by the Governor	0	0

Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 12 of 33 in the Senate · 12 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: John Stevens
Bill	Type	Result	Final action
SB 539 As enacted, establishes the process for property tax assessment and valuation of multi-unit rental housing that receives a federal, state, or local incentive…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2733 Subject to local approval, for the term beginning December 2028, increases the mayor's compensation from $200 to $400 per month and compensation for each…	Local	Became law passed as HB 2670	May 27, 2026
SB 2731 Subject to local approval, updates the system for the management of county finances, including, but not limited to, budgeting, investment oversight, debt…	Local	Became law passed as HB 2669	May 27, 2026
SB 2712 Subject to local approval, clarifies that the county highway superintendent of the county highway department be appointed by the county commission pursuant to…	Local	Became law passed as HB 2650	May 27, 2026
SB 2419 As enacted, requires a person who offers sparkling devices for sale and who does not hold a fireworks permit to register each location at which the person…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2039 As enacted, eliminates the fraud and economic crimes fees and assessments in criminal prosecutions for counties that have enacted a $12.50 court cost to be…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2491	May 27, 2026
SB 1909 As enacted, removes a conviction for domestic assault from the definition of a violent offender for purposes of drug treatment courts; changes the definition…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2291 As enacted, adds that a managed services provider that provides direct sales, installation, or maintenance service for an IP camera connected to the managed…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1985	May 26, 2026
SB 2190 As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Reverse Mortgage Innovation Act."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2382	May 26, 2026
SB 865 As enacted, generally requires a group policy in this state that provides hospital, surgical, or major medical expense insurance on an expense incurred basis…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 705	May 18, 2026
SB 1907 As enacted, enacts "The Chance Carlton Act."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1464	May 15, 2026
SB 1238 As enacted, provides, in addition to present law, an alternative method for the voluntary surrender of parental rights if executed within the geographic…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1263	May 15, 2026
SB 2184 As enacted, states that the Uniform Partition Heirs Property Act does not apply to sales of land to pay the debts of an estate; revises the method for…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 1858 As enacted, increases minimum time from 15 to 90 days that a court must give the general assembly to remedy any defects in a redistricting plan; makes related…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 2312 As enacted, designates the annual winner of the Old Time Bluegrass and Fiddlers' Jamboree as the state champion fiddler in this state.	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 2717 Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter.	Local	Became law passed as HB 2645	May 1, 2026
SB 2701 Subject to local approval, levies a severance tax on clay, titanium, and any other substance commonly recognized as a mineral not already taxed by this state…	Local	Became law passed as HB 2639	May 1, 2026
SB 2689 Subject to local approval, clarifies that the county highway superintendent of the county highway department continue in such elected office pursuant to…	Local	Became law passed as HB 2627	May 1, 2026
SB 1733 Subject to local approval, expands the responsibilities of the city recorder to include the administration of functions for necessary and proper municipal…	Local	Became law passed as HB 2022	May 1, 2026
SB 1732 As enacted, designates May 1 of each year as "Law Day."	Statewide	Became law	April 28, 2026
SB 866 As enacted, specifies that a party filing a counterclaim, third-party complaint, or cross-claim related to the design, planning, supervision, or construction…	Statewide	Became law	April 24, 2026
SB 2292 As enacted, prohibits, until July 1, 2033, public disclosure of certain commercial contracts entered into in furtherance of an intercollegiate athletics…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2141	April 24, 2026
SB 1859 As enacted, incorporates amendments adopted to the Uniform Commercial Code by the Uniform Law Commission in 2018 and 2022.	Statewide	Became law	April 24, 2026
SB 1958 As enacted, removes the right of a cause of action for any affected person who seeks declaratory and injunctive relief in any action brought regarding the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1971	April 23, 2026
SB 2313 As enacted, clarifies that commissioners for utility districts created pursuant to the Utility District Law of 1937 in Gibson County are not prohibited from…	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
SB 1910 As enacted, makes various changes regarding trusts and wills, including permitting confidential information related to trusts that is contained in court…	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
SB 1735 As enacted, removes the requirement that an assurance of voluntary compliance with the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 be in writing, and filed and…	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
SB 1731 As enacted, expands when the state may appeal an interlocutory order of a circuit or chancery court.	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
SB 1460 Subject to local approval, makes changes to definitions in the city charter; adds corporate powers to be exercised by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen; makes…	Local	Became law passed as HB 1438	June 4, 2025
SB 1450 Subject to local approval, requires the Board of Mayor and Aldermen to fill a vacancy declared for an office of Alderman within 60 days of such vacancy…	Local	Became law passed as HB 1428	June 4, 2025
SB 861 As enacted, schedules the Tennessee human rights commission for termination on July 1, 2025, and transfers the commission's duties concerning discrimination…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 910	May 27, 2025
SB 530 As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee National Guard Servicemember's Medical Readiness Act."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 479	May 27, 2025
SB 863 As enacted, directs the commission to promulgate rules to create and issue guide licenses for persons who work as guides at Reelfoot Lake.	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 655 As enacted, authorizes a district attorney general, on the consent of the district attorney general of any other judicial district, to specially appoint…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 547 As enacted, requires the clerk of every court having jurisdiction of criminal offenses to include a $12.50 charge in every cost bill, to be remitted to the…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 540 As enacted, requires the court to consider any failure to pay child support, rather than failure for a period of three years or more, when making a child…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 536 As enacted, revises present law relative to an intercollegiate athlete's name, image, or likeness.	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 535 As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act."	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 533 As enacted, requires, if a prisoner is released for paid employment, the cost of the electronic monitoring device to be deducted from the prisoner's wages by…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 544 As enacted, specifies that a filing office in receipt of a petition for review filed by a secured party contesting a public official's affidavit that a…	Statewide	Became law	April 30, 2025
SB 532 As enacted, authorizes a county that has adopted the County Sheriff's Civil Service Act of 1974 to rescind such adoption by a two-thirds vote of the county…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 1137 As enacted, allows a litigation financier that is not a business entity or partnership to amend or withdraw its registration with the secretary of state by…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 1097 As enacted, requires the state treasurer to deem a person ordered by a court to use a functioning ignition interlock device to be indigent and unable to pay…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 542 As enacted, requires the TCRS board of trustees to divest the retirement system from investment activity it has in a company known to be majority-owned by…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 805	April 28, 2025
SB 529 As enacted, revises one of the definitions of a "nonprofit organization" for purposes of the Tennessee Information Protection Act to mean a public utility…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 911	April 28, 2025
SB 1436 Subject to local approval, authorizes the county commission to appoint a minimum of three and a maximum of seven members to the board of trustees for the…	Local	Became law passed as HB 1414	April 28, 2025
SB 1433 Subject to local approval, repeals an obsolete private act regarding the acquisition and operation of a nursing home.	Local	Became law passed as HB 1412	April 28, 2025
SB 531 As enacted, requires the bureau to classify offenders and determine whether the offender's offense qualifies as a sexual offense, violent sexual offense, or a…	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2025
SB 1051 As enacted, adds that a person must complete a course of instruction and pass an examination to qualify to be commissioned as an online notary public…	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2025
SB 534 As enacted, establishes as a default rule of state trust law that a beneficiary is a non-fiduciary unless appointed in such capacity, and makes certain other…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 817	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

19 against the Senate's Speaker; 19 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: John Stevens
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 21, 2026	HB 2503: As enacted, authorizes a health insurance entity to offer a short-term limited-duration plan and hospital indemnity coverage on the marketplace. 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	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
April 20, 2026	SB 2040: As enacted, enacts the "Freedom, Access, and Integrity in Registered Pharmacy (FAIR Rx) Act." Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 20, 2026	HB 1034: As enacted, requires a court to apply rebuttable presumptions when determining the reasonableness in time of a restrictive covenant sought to be enforced… 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	HB 754: As enacted, revises law relative to gender clinics and related services. Final Passage	Nay	Not voting	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	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 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 2355: As enacted, generally requires a guardian ad litem appointed by the court to complete training appropriate to that role, including training in early… Final Passage	Nay	Not voting	Yea (split)
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. 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)
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	HB 371: As enacted, generally requires a person convicted of a Class A misdemeanor in general sessions court to pay for and complete a cognitive behavioral training… 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 16, 2025	SB 1414: As enacted, revises present law relative to 340B entities. 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	Nay	Nay	Yea (split)
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	Nay	Nay	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 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 John Stevens voted on each of the 4,545 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.

Every roll call: John Stevens
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.john.stevens@capitol.tn.gov
Capitol office: Room 710, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-4576

Committees

Ways and Means Co-chair
Commerce and Labor
Judiciary
Pensions
Select Ethics

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.