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Reginald Tate is a Democratic member of the Tennessee State Senate, representing District 33. He was first elected to the chamber in 2006.
Tate earned his B.A. in Architectural Engineering from Memphis. He is the president and CEO of Accent by Design.
Vice Chair, Cocaine, Alcohol Awareness Program
Former Member, Commerce and Labor Committee, Tennessee State Senate
Former First Vice Chair, Education Committee, Tennessee State Senate
Former Member, Ethics Committee, Tennessee State Senate
Former Member, Finance, Ways and Means Committee, Tennessee State Senate
Former Member, Government Operations Joint Committee, Tennessee General Assembly
Former Member, Joint Fiscal Review Committee, Tennessee State Senate
Treasurer, Shelby County Delegation
Member, Shelby County Juvenile Court Advisor Council
Member, Southern Regional Education Board
Treasurer, Tennessee Legislative Black Caucus
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
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2. Abortions should always be legal.
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3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
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4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
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5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
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6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
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7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
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8. Other or expanded principles
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1. Education (Higher)
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2. Education (K-12)
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3. Emergency preparedness
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4. Environment
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5. Cover Tennessee
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6. TennCare
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7. Health care
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8. Law enforcement
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9. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
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10. Welfare
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11. Other or expanded categories
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1. Alcohol taxes
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2. Capital gains taxes
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3. Cigarette taxes
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4. Corporate taxes
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5. Gasoline taxes
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6. Sales taxes
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7. Vehicle taxes
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8. Other or expanded categories
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9. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
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10. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
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11. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
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12. Other or expanded principles
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1. Do you support the current limit of terms for Tennessee governors?
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2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Tennessee state senators and representatives?
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1. Individual
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2. PAC
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3. Corporate
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4. Political Parties
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5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
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6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
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7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
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8. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Tennessee are closed?
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9. Should Tennesse recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
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10. Do you support a pension increase for Tennessee lawmakers?
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11. Other or expanded principles
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1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
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2. Support the death penalty in Tennessee.
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3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
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4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
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5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
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6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
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7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
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8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
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9. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
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10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
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11. Strengthen sex-offender laws.
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12. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
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13. Other or expanded principles
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1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
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2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
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3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
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4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
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5. Increase funds for hiring additional teachers.
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6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
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7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
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8. Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
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9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
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10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
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11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
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12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
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13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
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14. Other or expanded principles
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1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
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2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
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3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
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4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
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5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
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6. Include sexual orientation in Tennessee's anti-discrimination laws.
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7. Increase the state minimum wage.
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8. Other or expanded principles
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1. Public employment
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2. State college and university admissions
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3. State contracting
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4. Other or expanded principles
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1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
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2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
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3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
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4. Increase funding for improvements to Tennessee's power generating and transmission facilities.
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5. Support funding for open space preservation.
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6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
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7. Other or expanded principles
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1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
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2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
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3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
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4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
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5. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
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6. Require a license for gun possession.
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7. Other or expanded principles
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1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
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2. Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
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3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
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4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
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5. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
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6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Tennessee.
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7. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
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8. Other or expanded principles
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1. Permit the Tennesse Highway Patrol to enforce immigration laws.
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2. Require the Tennesse state driver's license exam to be given only in English.
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3. Impose a fine to any employer who knowingly hires an undocumented immigrant.
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4. Prohibit any employer who knowingly hired an undocumented immigrant from contracting with the state.
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5. Other or expanded principles
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1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
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2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
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3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
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4. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
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5. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
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6. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
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7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
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8. Other or expanded principles
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Please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
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Type: joint resolution Chamber: upper
Type: resolution Chamber: upper
Type: bill Chamber: upper
