Tennessee House Bill 721 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-03-23 - Action Def. in s/c Health Subcommittee to 3/30/2021
Pending: House Health Subcommittee Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

As introduced, encourages department of human services to develop a partnership with minority and other community-based organizations to improve the health of racial and ethnic minorities and to extend public health legal services to minority and low-income individuals receiving social and medical services; requests department to utilize temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) funds to support such partnerships. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 16; Title 40; Title 68 and Title 71.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 9; Title 16; Title 40; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to public health legal services.

Rep. Yusuf Hakeem [D]	Rep. Joe Towns [D]	Rep. Dwayne Thompson [D]	Rep. Vincent Dixie [D]
Rep. Jason Hodges [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-03-23	House	Action Def. in s/c Health Subcommittee to 3/30/2021
2021-03-17	House	Placed on s/c cal Health Subcommittee for 3/23/2021
2021-02-20	House	Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee
2021-02-11	House	P2C, ref. to Health Committee
2021-02-10	House	Intro., P1C.
2021-02-09	House	Filed for introduction

SB0308 (Crossfiled) 2021-02-10 - Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0721&ga=112
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/112/Bill/HB0721.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/112/Fiscal/SB0308.pdf