Tennessee House · District 71
Kip Capley
Where they sit
Every current House member, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.
Kip Capley'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 House District 71.
Also on the ballot: Matt Day (Democratic)
The scores
How these numbers work →Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Kip Capley.
Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Kip Capley.
Bills
The bills Kip Capley sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.
| Statewide | Local | |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 25 | 1 |
| Passed both chambers | 11 | 1 |
| Became law | 11 | 1 |
| Vetoed by the Governor | 0 | 0 |
Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 36 of 97 in the House (tied with 5 others) · 36 of 74 Republicans (tied with 4 others)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2428 As enacted, increases the penalty for assaulting a first responder from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory fine of $5,000 and a mandatory minimum of 30… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1900 |
May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1802 As enacted, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property. |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1847 |
May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1259 As enacted, authorizes municipal water and sewer systems to undertake certain projects on private property. |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 639 |
May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1708 As enacted, adds certain language comprehension requirements for certain driver licenses; requires documentation as a U.S. citizen or lawfully permitted in… |
Statewide | Became law | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 555 As enacted, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. |
Statewide | Became law | May 14, 2026 |
| HB 2499 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 passed as SB 2354 |
April 29, 2026 |
| HB 2498 As enacted, prohibits the division from providing coverage or reimbursement for a medical procedure performed on, or administered to, an individual if the… |
Statewide | Became law | April 24, 2026 |
| HB 1433 Subject to local approval, repeals the county wheel tax imposed by private act. |
Local | Became law | June 4, 2025 |
| HB 938 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 passed as SB 869 |
May 15, 2025 |
| HB 83 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 passed as SB 160 |
May 15, 2025 |
| HB 561 As enacted, authorizes certain utility systems to borrow money in anticipation of revenue collections and to issue negotiable notes to evidence such borrowing… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 518 |
April 30, 2025 |
| HB 343 As enacted, prohibits persons from selling, offering for sale, or offering a free sample of counterfeit lighters and unsafe lighters. |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 512 |
March 21, 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 Speaker; 30 against most of their party.
Every roll call
How Kip Capley voted on each of the 1,473 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.
| Date | Vote | Their vote | Most of their party | Speaker | 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
- rep.kip.capley@capitol.tn.gov
- Capitol office
- Room 650, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-2190
Committees
- Finance, Ways and Means
- Health
- Private Acts
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