Tennessee House · District 47
Rush Bricken
Where they sit
Every current House member, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.
Rush Bricken'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 47.
Also on the ballot: Mike Stein (Democratic)
The scores
How these numbers work →Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Rush Bricken.
Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Rush Bricken.
Bills
The bills Rush Bricken sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.
| Statewide | Local | |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 17 | 3 |
| Passed both chambers | 5 | 3 |
| Became law | 5 | 3 |
| Vetoed by the Governor | 0 | 0 |
Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 69 of 97 in the House (tied with 2 others) · 63 of 74 Republicans (tied with 2 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 2667 Subject to local approval, creates the Southern Cumberland Plateau Regional Water and Wastewater Authority. |
Local | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2663 Subject to local approval, allocates 3.8 percent of each annual operating budget, but not less than $1.5 million, to the maintenance of streets and roads… |
Local | Became law | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1926 As enacted, expands the length of the existing Independence Day and New Year sales periods and adds new Memorial Day and Labor Day sales periods for seasonal… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1964 |
May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1702 As enacted, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to perform a study of this state's emergency communications system. |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1898 |
May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1673 As enacted, makes various changes to laws regarding utilities, including the procedure for consolidation of utilities and continuing education requirements… |
Statewide | Became law | May 15, 2026 |
| HB 1927 As enacted, allows a local board of education or public charter school governing body that has not received funding from the department for purposes of… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 1891 |
April 6, 2026 |
| HB 1417 Subject to local approval, extends the term of the current city judge by one year in order to have the election of the city judge coincide with the elections… |
Local | Became law | June 4, 2025 |
| HB 922 As enacted, adds as unlawful under the Consumer Protection Act of 1977 the making of false statements or misrepresentations of fact to a consumer to indicate… |
Statewide | Became law passed as SB 816 |
April 30, 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
17 against the Speaker; 16 against most of their party.
Every roll call
How Rush Bricken 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.rush.bricken@capitol.tn.gov
- Capitol office
- Room 594, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-7448
Committees
- Commerce Vice chair
- Fiscal Review
- Naming and Designating
- State and Local Government
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