Paul Rose, Tennessee Senate District 32: 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

Paul Rose'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 Senate88thpercentile

More conservative than 87% of the Tennessee Senate.

Most liberalMost conservative

5th most conservative of 33

The scores

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Votes with the Senate's Speaker

95%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Paul Rose.

On 284 contested votes where both voted99% on all 4,310 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

100%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Paul Rose.

On 308 party-line votesPartisan rank: 1 of 33 in the Senate (tied with 2 others)No one in the Senate votes with their party more often

Bills

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

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Bills: Paul Rose
	Statewide	Local
Sponsored	69	7
Passed both chambers	40	6
Became law	39	6
Vetoed by the Governor	1	0

Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 11 of 33 in the Senate · 11 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: Paul Rose
Bill	Type	Result	Final action
SB 2372 As enacted, makes revisions to the offense of adulteration of food, liquids, or pharmaceuticals.	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2367 As enacted, applies the Neighborhood Preservation Act to Tipton County; authorizes Montgomery County and Tipton County to participate in the Tennessee Local…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1774 As enacted, creates a criminal offense for certain school employees who intentionally engage in bullying or cyberbullying of a student; clarifies that a…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1665 As enacted, clarifies that the same immunities from civil liability, adverse action, and disciplinary action, and duties, that apply to this state, state…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1952 As enacted, requires, until February 1, 2029, each court to cooperate with the U.S. department of homeland security and federal immigration authorities acting…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1707	May 18, 2026
SB 1225 As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to human trafficking.	Statewide	Became law	May 18, 2026
SB 936 As enacted, requires each governmental entity to revise any existing ordinance, resolution, rule, policy, and procedure that includes a reference to a natural…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1271	May 15, 2026
SB 375 As enacted, defines "serious bodily injury" for the purposes of the present law offense of vehicular assault, which occurs when a person who, as the proximate…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 359	May 5, 2026
SB 1989 As enacted, specifies that a parent's or legal guardian's action of raising, guiding, or instructing the parent's or legal guardian's child in a manner…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 1741 As enacted, enacts the "Charlie Kirk Act."	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 1663 As enacted, enacts the "Recognizing Judea and Samaria Act."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1446	May 5, 2026
SB 2365 As enacted, enacts the "Parental Rights Protection Act."	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 1740 As enacted, expands the disposition allowed when a person under 21 is found to have unlawfully purchased, possessed, accepted receipt of, or presented…	Statewide	Became law	May 4, 2026
SB 1489 Subject to local approval, revises the charter of the Town of Mason to provide grounds for vacating certain offices, to prescribe the oath for office; to fix…	Local	Became law passed as HB 1804	May 1, 2026
SB 1483 Subject to local approval, authorizes the legislative body of Tipton County to designate a division of the county's general sessions court as the…	Local	Became law passed as HB 1645	May 1, 2026
SB 2041 As enacted, creates a civil action for individuals who are the subject of an intimate image that is intentionally disclosed without the individual's consent…	Statewide	Became law	April 28, 2026
SB 1828 As enacted, enacts the "Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act."	Statewide	Became law	April 28, 2026
SB 394 As enacted, requires title insurance agencies that separately represent the buyer and seller in a real estate transaction and agree to an arrangement to share…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 569	April 27, 2026
SB 377 As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Procurement Protection Act."	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 548	April 27, 2026
SB 1850 As enacted, prohibits the department from requiring a relative caregiver, including relatives in the kinship foster care program, to provide a child with the…	Statewide	Became law	April 24, 2026
SB 1664 As enacted, prohibits certain healthcare providers from knowingly or willfully asking a minor, or a health insurance issuer, managed care organization, or…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1665	April 23, 2026
SB 2364 As enacted, repeals rules transferred from the defunct human rights commission to the attorney general and reporter; clarifies that complaints filed with the…	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
SB 1594 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	April 6, 2026
SB 938 As enacted, grants eligible state employees mandatory paid leave for fostering a minor child.	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 957	March 30, 2026
SB 2369 As enacted, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to offer students in any of the grades five through 12 a hunter education course that is approved by…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2588	March 30, 2026
SB 1459 Subject to local approval, repeals the animal control program.	Local	Became law passed as HB 1436	June 4, 2025
SB 1455 Subject to local approval, establishes that the offices of mayor and Alderman are limited to a maximum of three four-year terms; makes other changes to the…	Local	Became law passed as HB 1432	June 4, 2025
SB 1446 Subject to local approval, provides for the orderly transfer of the Probate and Juvenile Court in Lauderdale County from the County Courthouse to the Justice…	Local	Became law passed as HB 1423	June 4, 2025
SB 1442 Subject to local approval, establishes litter abatement and control requirements.	Local	Became law passed as HB 1421	June 4, 2025
SB 396 As enacted, authorizes, if the governor issues or extends an executive order or proclamation of a state of emergency, the general assembly to terminate such…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 132	May 27, 2025
SB 937 As enacted, prohibits a public school, LEA, or teacher, employee, or contractor of a public school or LEA from requiring a student, teacher, employee, or…	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 933 As enacted, makes various revisions to the governing boards of public higher education institutions.	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 932 As enacted, creates a distance to drive program study committee to help determine the feasibility of implementing a distance to drive program that would…	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 931 As enacted, prohibits labeling a cell-cultured food product as meat or a meat food product.	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 457 As enacted, decreases from 0.20 to 0.15 percent the minimum weight of alcohol concentration in a defendant's blood or breath as an element of the offense of…	Statewide	Became law	May 15, 2025
SB 503 As enacted, designates the month of June as "Celebration of Life" month, the month of July as "Celebration of Liberty" month, and the month of August as…	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 390 As enacted, authorizes the comptroller of the treasury to publish certain survey data that is otherwise deemed confidential.	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 455 As introduced, removes the limitations on the board of parole's authority to deny parole based solely on the seriousness of the offense for certain offenses…	Statewide	Vetoed	May 5, 2025
SB 601 As enacted, makes various changes regarding global positioning monitoring and the pretrial release of certain defendants.	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 525 As enacted, requires a three-judge panel to hear any civil action in which it is alleged that a proposed charter amendment ordinance that is to be submitted…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 456 As enacted, adds the offense of robbery to the definition of crime of violence.	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 376 As enacted, prohibits institutions of higher education from excluding a person from benefits, activities, and employment, or making decisions, based on a…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 1235 As enacted, prohibits the exclusion of persons from membership on state regulatory and health-related boards on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, and…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1237	April 28, 2025
SB 1209 As enacted, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, or religion against a student or an employee in a public…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1188	April 28, 2025
SB 1127 As enacted, removes the cap on the amount of wages or other compensation owed a deceased employee at the time of the employee's death that an employer shall…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 755	April 28, 2025
SB 371 As enacted, requires collection of a biological specimen from certain convicted offenders to be collected within 30 days of sentencing to be used for DNA…	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 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

14 against the Senate's Speaker; 3 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: Paul Rose
Date	Bill and motion	Their vote	Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate	Most of their party
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	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 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 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
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)
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 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
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 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
Feb. 27, 2025	SB 109: As enacted, authorizes a certified municipal finance officer who is contracted with a municipality to provide financial oversight on behalf of the… Motion to Reconsider	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)

Every roll call

How Paul Rose voted on each of the 4,545 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.

Every roll call: Paul Rose
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.paul.rose@capitol.tn.gov
Capitol office: Room 734, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-1967

Committees

Government Operations First vice chair
Government Operations First vice chair
Judiciary Second vice chair
Fiscal Review
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.