Tennessee Senate · District 9
Steve Southerland
Where they sit
Every current senator, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.
Steve Southerland'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
Steve Southerland is the only candidate on the November 3 ballot. (Tennessee Senate District 9)
The scores
How these numbers work →Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Steve Southerland.
Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Steve Southerland.
Bills
The bills Steve Southerland sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.
| Statewide | Local | |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 39 | 5 |
| Passed both chambers | 9 | 3 |
| Became law | 9 | 3 |
| Vetoed by the Governor | 0 | 0 |
Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 27 of 33 in the Senate · 26 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
| Bill | Type | Result | Final action |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB 2705 Subject to local approval, abolishes the Hamblen County Road Commission, effective August 31, 2028. |
Local | Became law passed as HB 2640 |
May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2703 Subject to local approval, updates appointment provisions, qualifications, and compensation for the office of county attorney. |
Local | Became law passed as HB 2642 |
May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2601 As enacted, increases from $100,000 to $250,000 the retained risk limit for a single risk covered by a policy of insurance issued by a county mutual insurance… |
Statewide | Became law | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 2597 As enacted, authorizes the executive director of the wildlife resources agency to enter into agreements with local law enforcement agencies for the purpose of… |
Statewide | Became law | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 2719 Subject to local approval, aligns the county's mineral severance tax with the tax amounts prescribed under state law. |
Local | Became law passed as HB 2655 |
May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2602 As enacted, increases from 150 gallons to 835 gallons the annual threshold amount of honey at or above which a honey producer is subject to food manufacturing… |
Statewide | Became law | April 24, 2026 |
| SB 2596 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 | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 981 As enacted, authorizes Hamblen County to participate in the convenience voting center pilot project. |
Statewide | Became law | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 980 As enacted, requires a description of real property contained within a deed of conveyance of a property not previously described in a recorded instrument to… |
Statewide | Became law | April 30, 2025 |
| SB 970 As enacted, generally authorizes the board of directors of a municipal energy authority to, as part of the transfer of a water and wastewater system, adopt… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 660 |
April 28, 2025 |
| SB 982 As enacted, specifies that a vehicle protection product warrantor applying for renewal is not required to file a copy of a warranty that has already been… |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 621 |
April 4, 2025 |
| SB 978 As enacted, changes all TCA references from "adult day care" to "adult day services." |
Statewide | Became law passed as HB 157 |
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
25 against the Senate's Speaker; 18 against most of their party.
Every roll call
How Steve Southerland voted on each of the 4,545 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.
| Date | Vote | Their vote | Most of their party | Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate | Yeas–nays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loading… | |||||
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
- sen.steve.southerland@capitol.tn.gov
- Capitol office
- Room 712, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-3851
Committees
- Commerce and Labor Second vice chair
- Finance, Ways and Means
- Fiscal Review
- Government Operations
- Government Operations
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