State Representative Profile

Tennessee House District 23
Englewood
Republican
2.0
2.0 out of 5 stars (based on 4 reviews)

Rep. Mark Cochran

Contact Information:

615.741.1725
rep.mark.cochran@capitol.tn.gov

Vote Score / Lifetime Score / Leadership Grade

76

80

D

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Rep. Mark Cochran

Republican
Englewood
2.0
2.0 out of 5 stars (based on 4 reviews)

Vote Score / Lifetime Score

76

80

Leadership Grade

D

* The Vote Score is the tabulation of total votes (for this legislator) for or against all of the bills tracked by TLRC for the legislative session. The Leadership Grade is a separate accounting of how well this legislator defended liberty by speaking up in committee hearings or on the chamber floor, sponsoring or co-sponsoring key pieces of legislation, and demonstrably working to preserve liberty on behalf of citizens.

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HB 1 / SB 1
Prohibition on child mutilation (gender-affirming surgeries).
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HB 2 / SB 11
Permanently extends protections from COVID mandates and masking.
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HB 9 / SB 3
Criminalizes a performance that is sexual in nature on public property.
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HB 23 / SB 27
Open meetings - agenda posted 48 hours prior to meeting.
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HB 30 / SB 841
Require an adult entertainment license for businesses.
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HB 40 / SB 122
Restricts ownership of real property by foreign nationals/entities from sanctioned countries.
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HB 90 / SB 600
Bans funding for abortions by counties and municipalities for employees.
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HB 158 / SB 102
Prohibits any requirement for teachers to undergo any "implicit bias" training.
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HB 239 / SB 1440
Define “sex” as male and female in Tennessee law.
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HB 252 / SB 674
Protect the privacy of home school families and remove a requirement to report child vaccination status.
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HB 306 / SB 1237
Protect girls' sports.
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HB 316 / SB 268
Redefines "money" and paves the way for digital currency (CBDC).
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HB 321 / SB 273
Approves use of public-private partnerships for the construction of toll roads in Tennessee.
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HB 322 / SB 274
School safety and Safety Resource Officer (SRO) funding.
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HB 448 / SB 551
Required time for public comment in public meetings.
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HB 636 / SB 598
Allows a candidate removed from a party's ballot to run as an independent.
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HB 841 / SB 1059
Criminal penalty for book distributors and obscene materials.
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HB 878 / SB 596
Protect religious liberty for ministers and elected officials.
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HB 883 / SB 745
Creates exception for a physician’s good faith judgement on abortion.
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HB 1269 / SB 466
Teachers are not required to refer to a student's preferred pronoun.
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HB 1286 / SB 955
Bans ESG investment strategies by the state of Tennessee.
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HB 1380 / SB 1111
Mature Minor Doctrine Clarification Act
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HB 640 / SB 479
Redefines “money” in such a way that obfuscates the use of cryptocurrencies.
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HB 1202 / SB 1325
Authorizes school faculty and staff to conceal carry with training and other requirements.
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HB 1605 / SB 1722
Rules on displaying flags in classrooms.
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HB 1625 / SB 1673
Requires mental health providers to report potential threats to law enforcement.
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HB 1631 / SB 1708
Clarifies that private schools may create policies to carry handguns on campus.
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HB 1634 / SB 2766
Makes changes to basis of discrimination for students.
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HB 1663 / SB 1834
Authorizes death penalty for rape of a child.
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HB 1695 / SB 2020
Specifies that autopsy reports of minors are not public records.
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HB 1726 / SB 2359
Secures religious exemptions to vaccinations for foster and adoptive families.
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HB 1799 / SB 1706
Keep outside influence out of elections in Tennessee.
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HB 1872 / SB 2770
Increases criminal penalties for violent crimes committed by illegal aliens.
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HB 1883 / SB 1641
Secures a right to patient visitation in a hospital.
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HB 1890 / SB 2099
Creates a program for agricultural easements paving the way for the Biden 30X30 Agenda.
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HB 1894 / SB 1903
Defines foods containing vaccines as drugs for regulatory purposes.
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HB 1895 / SB 1971
Creates criminal penalty for trafficking minors across state lines for an abortion.
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HB 1899 / SB 2025
Authorizes retired law enforcement and former military to serve as SROs.
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HB 1955 / SB 2586
Defines procedures for third parties (i.e. nonprofits) who register new voters.
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HB 2035 / SB 2763
Restricts cities and counties from enacting emergency risk protection orders.
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HB 2063 / SB 2691
Bans the practice of geoengineering and weather modification.
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HB 2096 / SB 2587
Defers funding approval for voting machines to county election commissions.
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HB 2100 / SB 2148
Bans the use of social credit scores for banks and insurers.
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HB 2119 / SB 1983
Gives property owners further recourse when facing condemnation for eminent domain.
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HB 2120 / SB 1984
Protects property owners from eminent domain takings for recreational use purposes.
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HB 2159 / SB 2041
Creates a civil liability for distribution of obscene materials to minors.
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HB 2165 / SB 1810
Public and charter schools must notify parents if their student makes a request to have their gender identity affirmed.
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HB 2553 / SB 2639
Restricts certain foreign investments and ownership in land located within this state.
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HB 2762 / SB 2223
Protects the privacy of retail firearms transactions.
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HB 2861 / SB 2151
Restricts healthcare facilities from coercing a person to be vaccinated.
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HB 64 / SB 472
Requires sex-based bathroom and changing area segregation in schools.
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HB 132 / SB 396
Subjects the Governor’s emergency powers to legislative oversight.
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HB 134 / SB 476
Eliminates foods containing Red 40 in public schools.
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HB 322 / SB 392
Criminalizes human smuggling and harboring illegal immigrants in Tennessee.
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HB 324 / SB 27
Limits governor’s emergency powers to protect constitutional rights.
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HB 377 / SB 376
Ends DEI hiring and admissions practices in our state universities.
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HB 444 / SB 480
Restricts the use of eminent domain for blighted areas.
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HB 533 / SB 449
Establishes legal right to emergency contraception and IVF.
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HB 571 / SB 468
Defines biological sex and protects women and children.
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HB 638 / SB 1389
Protects patients from healthcare discrimination based on vaccination status.
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HB 804 / SB 931
Requires labeling and licensing for lab-grown meat products.
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HB 811 / SB 227
Holds charitable organizations accountable for crimes committed by illegal aliens under their care.
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HB 855 / SB 799
Requires county parties to nominate candidates exclusively by primary elections.
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HB 990 / SB 1004
Redefines abortion exceptions, weakening Tennessee’s pro-life protections.
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HB 1112 / SB 1033
Further clarifies ban on weather modification adding enforcement.
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HB 1157 / SB 1031
Place limitations on the promotion of pharmaceuticals by the Department of Health.
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HB 1299 / SB 1346
Criminalizes and penalizes nonconsensual deepfake intimate images.
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HB 1316 / SB 1297
Extends a digital ID system with the use of biometric data.
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HB 1325 / SB 207
Creates agricultural easements and threatens private property rights.
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HB 6004 / SB 6001
Governor’s Education Freedom Act of 2025 – Special Session
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HJR 51
Calls Tennessee to annual month of prayer and fasting.

* A green thumbs up indicates that this legislator voted favorably towards the stated TLRC position on the bill. A red thumbs down indicates otherwise.
* Vote scores reflect votes in committees in addition to whether or not the legislator supported our position on a particular bill and therefore cannot be calculated simply by the information displayed above.
* An “A” indicates that the legislator was absent during the floor vote for that particular bill.

Campaign Finance Reporting

Currently reporting through end of year 2024.

$231,842.58

TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS BEGINNING 2018

53.7%

PERCENTAGE OF SPECIAL INTERESTS CONTRIBUTIONS

Top 5 PAC Contributors Cumulative Giving
HCA TRISTAR FUND
$4,000
TENNESSEE ACADEMY OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS PAC
$4,000
TENNESSEE ACTION COMMITTEE FOR RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
$4,000
BUTLER SNOW GOOD TO GREAT TENNESSEE PAC
$3,700
TENNESSEE CHIROPRACTIC ASSN PAC
$3,500

* All of the data presented in this section is public information and extracted from the online resources of the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance. Per Tennessee law, this information is self-reported by candidates and the Tennessee Legislative Report Card (TLRC) is not responsible for inaccurate, misleading, or false information that may have been reported by candidates or their campaigns. Please note that the financial information displayed by TLRC does not include unitemized contributions as reported. If you feel that any of this information is presented in error, please contact us at info@tnreportcard.com.

Citizen Reviews

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June 16, 2025

Why do none of our elected officials respond to the actions of the federal government? The government does not represent us. They are setting up a Technate and the state legislature behaves as though they have no clue and do not concern themselves with the actions of the central government. What Musk has done in collecting all of our data is illegal and clearly they have the intention of using that data to invade our privacy and to use it to deny us our freedom if we do not agree with everything they do to us. Even Trump is introducing a digital currency and they can prevent us from spending money if we oppose them. The technocrats can decide how we spend what money we’re allowed. Yet there is no action from our state legislators. We can’t even get them to create a state bank.

https://www.technocracy.news/

In my area I can’t even see the stars at night as a result of geoengineering. I don’t remember the last time I saw a clear night sky. Plus the fact that I can smell the chemicals at night. Black stuff collects on my car. When I was a child the night was filled with lightening bugs. I’ve seen One and this is the first of June. https://geoengineeringwatch.org/

Israel is going to attack Iran and start WW3. They need a major event to set up their total rule and control.

This is not about conservatism or liberals. This is not 1950. They’re reducing the world population as we speak. There is a new virus spreading through Asia. Mosquitoes are being used to kill cattle and anything else that gets bitten by them. They have the technology to create hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes and they use doctors and hospitals to kill us and nobody gets investigated or arrested. We know who was responsible for 9-11 and they’re walking around free as the birds. Nobody in big pharma has been arrested and we don’t even know the names of the people who made money killing millions of people. How can state legislators be so unconcerned about such horrible illegal events? I can’t get concerned over which pac is the most corrupt. The biggest problem we face is that those who represent us seem to have such low IQs that they are easily dealt with and can be ignored by those who are doing these things to us. In spite of state laws the geoengineering never stopped and even became worse. But if we show concern they just point out that they’ve passed a law. Why not call Trump from the Congressional sessions and at least make it known that we see what is going on and demand that he do something about it. Drastic times call for drastic measures.

They practically painted a picture for us when Biden was in the White House that the President does not run the country. Yet people voted in a federal election and voted for Trump evidently thinking that he would fix things. duh No wonder they don’t even try to hide who they are any more. I want to get people elected to the state legislature who at least know what is going on. We should concentrate on finding people to run for public office based upon their intelligence and awareness. But those people who are aware are not going to be interested in wasting their time unless we can demonstrate that we deserve them.

Barbara
April 23, 2025

Great guy. Very nice and helpful.

Nick D
April 17, 2025

An amendment made by Representative Mark Cochran (R-Englewood) added on Wednesday that would prevent the sale of hemp containing a total THC content over 0.3%. As most of these products include THCA as a kind of precursor to THC, the bill would essentially ban the sale of TCHA products altogether, or 60% of revenue for local businesses in the hemp industry.

Jackson B
July 8, 2024

My complaint for Mark Cochran is that he does not respond to me at all so it’s like he doesn’t represent me. I’m in his district so I feel like he just throws away my letters like I’m spam. I’ve sent several emails and he claims that he does not get them. Well, someone else does!

Amber B