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State Representative, 48th District

Vote for: 1
Term: 2 years
Candidates: 2
Election: Nov 3, 2026

What this office does: A state representative votes on Tennessee laws and the state budget in the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Candidates Compare by issue

Matt Ferry

Democratic

Small business owner; freelance photographer · Murfreesboro

The gist

Opposes vouchers; wants public education dollars kept public.
Supports safe-storage laws for firearms.
Supports expanding Medicaid.
Pledges to protect access to IVF and birth control.
Supports a grocery tax break instead of corporate tax breaks.
Supports expanding public transportation.

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Opposes vouchers; wants public education dollars kept public.
Public Education — Matt Ferry for TN House 48
Campaign website · Campaign to Elect Matt Ferry · mattferrytn48.com
“Public education dollars need to stay in public schools”
Supports safe-storage laws for firearms.
Common Sense Gun Laws — Matt Ferry for TN House 48
Campaign website · Campaign to Elect Matt Ferry · mattferrytn48.com
“Safe Storage laws will not only prevent dozens of accidental child gun deaths every year”
Supports expanding Medicaid.
Access to Healthcare — Matt Ferry for TN House 48
Campaign website · Campaign to Elect Matt Ferry · mattferrytn48.com
“The pro-life, fiscally conservative thing to do is to expand Medicaid”
Pledges to protect access to IVF and birth control.
Women's Reproductive Rights — Matt Ferry for TN House 48
Campaign website · Campaign to Elect Matt Ferry · mattferrytn48.com
“I will fight to protect access to IVF, birth control”
Supports a grocery tax break instead of corporate tax breaks.
Widening Economic Divide — Matt Ferry for TN House 48
Campaign website · Campaign to Elect Matt Ferry · mattferrytn48.com
“instead of giving large corporations tax breaks, let's give folks just trying to meet their family's basic needs a tax break”
Supports expanding public transportation.
Public Transportation — Matt Ferry for TN House 48
Campaign website · Campaign to Elect Matt Ferry · mattferrytn48.com
“I support public transportation”

Bryan Terry

RepublicanIncumbent

Physician (anesthesiologist) · Murfreesboro

The gist

Sponsored law clarifying the medical exception in abortion law.In office
Sponsored the Medical Ethics Defense Act.In office
Sponsored the Individualized Investigational Treatment Act.In office
Sponsored law creating an advisory task force on solid waste.In office
Sponsored law extending homestead exemption to disabled adult children.In office

In office = from the candidate's own official statements or legislation as an officeholder, not their campaign.

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Sponsored law clarifying the medical exception in abortion law.
Representative Bryan Terry: bills sponsored in the 114th General Assembly
Government record · Tennessee General Assembly · wapp.capitol.tn.gov
“as used in present law provisions relative to criminal abortion”
Sponsored the Medical Ethics Defense Act.
Representative Bryan Terry: bills sponsored in the 114th General Assembly
Government record · Tennessee General Assembly · wapp.capitol.tn.gov
“Medical Ethics Defense Act”
Sponsored the Individualized Investigational Treatment Act.
Representative Bryan Terry: bills sponsored in the 114th General Assembly
Government record · Tennessee General Assembly · wapp.capitol.tn.gov
“Individualized Investigational Treatment Act”
Sponsored law creating an advisory task force on solid waste.
Representative Bryan Terry: bills sponsored in the 114th General Assembly
Government record · Tennessee General Assembly · wapp.capitol.tn.gov
“creates the advisory task force on solid waste to examine and review issues related to solid waste”
Sponsored law extending homestead exemption to disabled adult children.
Representative Bryan Terry: bills sponsored in the 114th General Assembly
Government record · Tennessee General Assembly · wapp.capitol.tn.gov
“adds a child who is 18 or older and has a developmental or intellectual disability to whom the homestead exemption extends”

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