Beacon Hill Roll Call
Volume 51 – Report No. 34
August 17 – 21, 2026
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THE HOUSE AND SENATE: There were no roll call votes in the House or Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports local senators’ roll call attendance records for the 2026 session through August 21.
During the week of August 17-21, the House met for a total of 40 minutes and the Senate met for a total of 45 minutes.
The Senate has held 122 roll calls so far in the 2026 session. Beacon Hill Roll Call tabulates the number of roll calls on which each senator voted and then calculates that number as a percentage of the total roll call votes held. That percentage is the number referred to as the roll call attendance record.
Senate rules allow a senator, who is not physically present at the session in the Senate chamber, to vote remotely from any location inside or outside of the Statehouse — without giving a reason for his or her absence from the Senate chamber.
Sometimes a senator is not able to attend only one or two sessions during which roll calls are held, but since there are sometimes multiple roll calls on each one of those days, the number of roll calls they missed can be high even though they only missed one or two sessions.
Thirty-two (80 percent) out of the 40 senators did not miss any roll call votes and had a 100 precent roll call attendance record.
2026 SENATE ATTENDANCE RECORDS THROUGH AUGUST 22
Here are the 2026 roll call attendance records of local senators through August 22. The attendance records are based on 122 roll calls.
The percentage listed next to the senator’s name is the percentage of roll call votes on which the senator voted. The number in parentheses represents the number of roll calls that he or she missed.
Sen. Jason Lewis – 100 percent (0)
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