Tennessee House · District 40
Michael Hale
Where they sit
Every current House member, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.
Michael Hale'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 40.
Also on the ballot: Daniel T. Hawthorne (Democratic)
The scores
How these numbers work →Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Michael Hale.
Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Michael Hale.
Bills
The bills Michael Hale sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.
| Statewide | Local | |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 32 | 0 |
| Passed both chambers | 10 | 0 |
| Became law | 10 | 0 |
| Vetoed by the Governor | 0 | 0 |
Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 42 of 97 in the House (tied with 4 others) · 41 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 2268 As enacted, removes the requirement for waivers to be used only one course at a time for academic courses that full-time state employees are eligible to take… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1612 |
May 22, 2026 |
| HB 47 As enacted, authorizes local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to allow schools in the LEA or the public charter school, as… |
Statewide | Became law | May 14, 2026 |
| HB 2267 As enacted, exempts utility terrain vehicles being operated for agricultural purposes from the restriction that such vehicles are authorized to operate only… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 2596 |
April 6, 2026 |
| HB 1478 As enacted, adds provider reimbursement information that is provided to the comptroller of the treasury to the existing list of examples of proprietary… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1594 |
April 6, 2026 |
| HB 1715 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 passed as SB 1893 |
March 23, 2026 |
| HB 141 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 passed as SB 41 |
May 2, 2025 |
| HB 712 As enacted, directs the commissioner and the director of TennCare to develop guidelines for service providers for hiring qualified family members as a family… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1178 |
April 30, 2025 |
| HB 6 As enacted, authorizes LEAs to enroll LEAs' employees' children into the voluntary pre-kindergarten program if space is available after enrollment of at-risk… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 753 |
April 29, 2025 |
| HB 155 As enacted, removes the limitation that a death must have been anticipated for a registered nurse to make the actual determination and pronouncement of death… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 668 |
April 8, 2025 |
| HB 498 As enacted, creates the advisory task force on state reimbursement rates to make recommendations on annual adjustments to the reimbursement rates paid to… |
Statewide | Became law | 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
34 against the Speaker; 30 against most of their party.
Every roll call
How Michael Hale 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.michael.hale@capitol.tn.gov
- Capitol office
- Room 672, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-2192
Committees
- Commerce
- Finance, Ways and Means
- Insurance
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