Tom Hatcher, Tennessee Senate District 2: 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

Tom Hatcher'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

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More liberal than 68% of the Tennessee Senate.

Most liberalMost conservative

11th most liberal of 33

The scores

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Votes with the Senate's Speaker

93%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Tom Hatcher.

On 258 contested votes where both voted99% on all 3,964 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

96%

Each tick is a current senator, by party; the dot is Tom Hatcher.

On 282 party-line votesPartisan rank: 23 of 33 in the Senate (tied with 3 others)22 senators vote with their party more often

Bills

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

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Bills: Tom Hatcher
	Statewide	Local
Sponsored	50	0
Passed both chambers	28	0
Became law	28	0
Vetoed by the Governor	0	0

Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 16 of 33 in the Senate · 16 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: Tom Hatcher
Bill	Type	Result	Final action
SB 2537 As enacted, provides that an application for an exemption from property taxation for property owned by a religious, charitable, scientific, or nonprofit…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2528 As enacted, expands the purposes for which monies from the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund may be expended by the Ocoee River recreation…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1602 As enacted, enacts the "James Bardsley, Jr. Life Protection Act."	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 1592 As enacted, creates a process for continuing funding for a municipal LEA when the municipal legislative body and the governing body for the LEA cannot agree…	Statewide	Became law	May 27, 2026
SB 2531 As enacted, creates the state families of incarcerated individuals advisory board within the department of correction for the purposes of assisting the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2111	May 26, 2026
SB 2004 As enacted, requires a local emergency management agency to annually require all employees to receive training provided by TEMA on the Mutual Aid and…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1753	May 18, 2026
SB 1820 As enacted, requires each correctional officer at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center to utilize a body camera that is recording at all times while the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1718	May 18, 2026
SB 1633 As enacted, requires a sentencing court to order the sentences for two or more offenses involving more than one minor victim to run consecutively unless the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1525	May 15, 2026
SB 2535 As enacted, requires the department to collaborate with the department of safety to develop guidelines for LEAs and public charter schools providing a driver…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 2525 As enacted, allows a high school student who is older than 16 but younger than 19 to work in a child care center outside of school hours or during school…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 2005 As enacted, requires certification from the peace officer standards and training commission and certain other criteria to be met in order for the commissioner…	Statewide	Became law	May 5, 2026
SB 1725 As enacted, creates the Class C misdemeanor offense of mooring a recreational vessel for more than 14 consecutive days at any one place along the water's edge…	Statewide	Became law	April 28, 2026
SB 1632 As enacted, renames the Army National Guard Armory located on U.S. Highway 321 in Maryville the "CSM William O. Gregory National Guard Armory."	Statewide	Became law	April 27, 2026
SB 2539 As enacted, requires a court to include written findings of fact as to whether certain limitations in parenting plans apply in a child custody order, whether…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2127	April 24, 2026
SB 2532 As enacted, increases, from a Class C to Class B misdemeanor, the classification of offenses involving unlawful disposal of sewage if the person commits the…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 2355	April 24, 2026
SB 1724 As enacted, authorizes a sheriff, jail administrator, or deputy jailer to refuse or delay acceptance into the jail of an arrestee if the arrestee has not…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1815	April 24, 2026
SB 2529 As enacted, requires the department of transportation to install signs or markers displaying language or an appropriate symbol indicating to motorists that a…	Statewide	Became law	April 23, 2026
SB 2267 As enacted, clarifies that the four trustees for other post-employment benefits may appoint a designee in their absence.	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
SB 1845 As enacted, requires a person ordered to use an ignition interlock device to provide the clerk of the court with documentation showing qualifications for…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1748	March 30, 2026
SB 963 As enacted, increases from 11 months and 29 days to two years from the date of arrest the time within which misdemeanor charges against a defendant who has…	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 1177	May 27, 2025
SB 720 As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the board of ground water management effective July 1, 2025; makes related changes relative to the board.	Statewide	Became law passed as HB 894	May 27, 2025
SB 848 As enacted, authorizes a county that has adopted the County Purchasing Law of 1957 to require a competitive bid process for insurance brokerage services.	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2025
SB 116 As enacted, removes a requirement that audits and working papers prepared by independent public accountants for annual reports by a governing board operating…	Statewide	Became law	May 2, 2025
SB 454 As enacted, clarifies, by removing certain language, that a professional solicitor includes servants or employees specially employed by or for a charitable…	Statewide	Became law	April 30, 2025
SB 391 As enacted, establishes procedures for the use of certified facility dogs during witness testimony and other court proceedings; establishes standards for…	Statewide	Became law	April 30, 2025
SB 561 As enacted, removes the monitoring requirement for boating safety examinations; replaces statutory fees for boating safety certificates and replacement cards…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 453 As enacted, revises notification requirements regarding the provision to the secretary of state of solicitation materials to be used by a professional…	Statewide	Became law	April 29, 2025
SB 119 As enacted, requires this state's definition of manufactured home to automatically update with the definition of manufactured home under title 42 of the…	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

19 against the Senate's Speaker; 13 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: Tom Hatcher
Date	Bill and motion	Their vote	Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate	Most of their party
April 23, 2026	SB 1585: As enacted, revises the assessment testing requirements for students who participate in the education savings account (ESA) program. Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 23, 2026	HB 2175: As enacted, requires a delivery network company or delivery network company driver to comply with certain automobile liability insurance requirements. Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 22, 2026	SB 1585: As enacted, revises the assessment testing requirements for students who participate in the education savings account (ESA) program. Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 22, 2026	HB 2121: As enacted, enacts the "Better Spending, Better Schools Act of 2026." Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
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	SB 2102: As enacted, requires, for an electric utility providing services outside the corporate limits of the home municipality, expansion of the utility board to… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 20, 2026	SB 1723: As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the board of directors of the Tennessee education lottery corporation; requires certain information maintained by the… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 16, 2026	HB 2532: As enacted, revises education law, including, but not limited to, increasing, from 25,000 to 35,000, the maximum number of education freedom scholarships that… 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	Nay	Nay	Yea (split)
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… Motion to Table Amendment	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 2, 2026	HB 548: As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Procurement Protection Act." Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 26, 2026	SB 1369: As enacted, revises law relative to the operation of acute care hospitals. Final Passage	Yea	Nay (split)	Yea
March 12, 2026	SB 2028: As enacted, clarifies that local governmental entities shall not regulate the manner and means of taking wildlife, including the discharge of a firearm while… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 12, 2026	HB 1194: As enacted, defines, for purposes of the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act, a "private employer" as any person who is required by federal law and regulations to… 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 14, 2025	SB 614: As introduced, requires, if a local government adopts a budget that includes the required maintenance of effort for education funding but fails to appropriate… Final Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
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
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

Every roll call

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

Every roll call: Tom Hatcher
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.tom.hatcher@capitol.tn.gov
Capitol office: Room 752, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, TN 37243
615-741-0981

Committees

State and Local Government Second vice chair
Government Operations
Government Operations
Transportation and Safety

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.