| TN | SB1153 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits physicians from prescribing, administering, or dispensing medication for, or otherwise treating, themselves or their immediate family except for specified or emergency situations; prohibits physicians from treating themselves...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SJR0422 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs feasibility study of implementing medical benefits overlay program to supplement State's current benefit plan offerings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1054 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, limits a foreign training license of limited duration to an internationally licensed physician who meets certain listed criteria. - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | HJR0149 | Engross
Sine Die | Supports efforts to make Tennesseans healthy again.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SR0119 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes Black Maternal Health Week, April 11-17, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SJR0316 | Intro
Sine Die | Myositis Awareness Month
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0742 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to create programs designed to enhance access to dental services in rural and underserved areas subject to the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0793 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner to report to the chairs of legislative committees having jurisdiction over health-related matters on the standards and policies for assisted reproductive technology in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0331 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from March 1 to January 15 the date by which the bureau of TennCare, in consultation with the perinatal advisory committee and with the assistance of relevant state agencies, must report to legislative committees concerning asp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0553 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends from 30 to 60 days the period of time following a change in the address listed on a physician's registration certificate within which a physician licensed by the board of medical examiners must notify the board of such change. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0461 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes the scope of practice for anesthesiologist assistants, subject to regulatory oversight by the board of medical examiners as part of such practice. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0911 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates prescribing authority for certain psychologists if certain conditions and prerequisites are met. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0474 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider from inquiring as to a patient's ownership, possession of, or access to firearm ammunition or firearm accessories; subjects the healthcare provider to disciplinary action and a fine of $1,000 if the heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0523 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of human services to develop and implement a five-year pilot program in which eligible households are awarded an annual supplemental income grant of $5,000 beginning in 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1039 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a healthcare facility from authorizing a licensed healthcare professional from performing a drug or alcohol test or screen on a patient who is pregnant, less than one year postpartum, or a newborn without written and oral con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0009 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the restriction on the direct employment of radiologists, pathologists, anesthesiologists, and emergency physicians by hospitals and certain healthcare facilities. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1369 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes acute care hospitals from the requirement of obtaining a certificate of need beginning July 1, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1238 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to make forms promulgated for use by courts, agencies, and persons in the adoption process available on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1365 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces the time in which the department of children's services has to determine whether a temporary childcare licensee has complied with all regulations to receive a permanent childcare license from 90 days from the date the temporary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1122 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the temporary youth mental health service program. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0851 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0333 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires all hospitals licensed by the health facilities commission or by the department of mental health and substance abuse services to report annually to the department of health, on a form promulgated by the department, the number ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0852 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 10 to 30 business days, the period of time that must be included in a non-compete agreement between an employing entity and a physician regarding the time after which, if no agreement on the fair market value of the prac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0860 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a process by which an individual or terminal patient can refuse to make an anatomical gift that cannot be amended by another person; requires a procurement organization to follow certain procedures for contacting a decedent's f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0551 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows, instead of requires, the governor to consult with medical groups in making appointments to the board of medical examiners. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1071 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that a reimbursement payment to a child advocacy center be completed within 30 days of receipt of a request for reimbursement; requires payment of a 10 percent late payment fee for failing to make a timely reimbursement to a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to make available and require blood lead level testing for students in certain schools and certain pregnant women; requires the department to provide to persons who have high blood lead levels or lead poisoning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0501 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid eligibility solely for the purpose of providing treatment for a patient with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease in accordance with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0264 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires TennCare to certify an eligible healthcare provider's unreimbursed costs in a calendar year as charitable contributions made exclusively for public purposes to TennCare; requires eligible healthcare providers to pay TennCare $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SJR0215 | Intro
Sine Die | Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month, May 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1355 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Guaranteed Basic Income Act" or the "Protection Against Automation Act," which requires the department to develop and implement a program in which eligible residents are awarded an annual guaranteed basic income grant begin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1156 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the sale of food containing nanotechnology created by humans that is capable of collecting and transmitting data unless the food is labeled as containing nanotechnology. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0223 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a person who is licensed to practice a healing art; who was an officer in the commissioned medical corps of the army, the navy, the air force, or the public health service of the United States; and who was subsequently dischar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0584 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to develop and maintain an essential buffer stock of necessary medicines and healthcare supplies to be distributed during a natural or man-made disaster, mass casualty event, or public health emergency. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0401 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires, on and after July 1, 2026, a minor who is enrolled in TennCare medicaid or the CoverKids program to remain eligible for such program until the minor reaches 18; prohibits the division of TennCare from subjecting the minor to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0902 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Child Care Workforce Improvement Act," which directs the commissioner of human services to develop a program to provide longevity payments to eligible child care workers and a program to provide child care assistance paymen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1160 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, designates December 14 of each year as "Hazel Moore Day." - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1196 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes an assisted-care living facility to comply with any requirement to post information in the facility by making such information available on an electronic screen clearly visible to residents and the public subject to approval...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1145 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires, if the person or government agency assuming custody of a body for the purposes of burial does not request an autopsy, or that the body be embalmed, the person or agency to ensure that the body is buried within 48 hours from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1199 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds legislative librarian to the list the department of mental health and substance abuse services must submit its quarterly report to on the implementation and impact of available suitable accommodations, including the number and len...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1356 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the governor to seek a new TennCare waiver within 180 days of the effective date of this act to provide medical assistance coverage for individuals whose gross annual income is equal to or less than 138 percent of the federal p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0879 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of human services to annually identify federal waivers it deems necessary to alleviate federal regulatory limitations that inhibit the department's ability to timely review and approve applications and deliver b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0839 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends from March 1 to April 1, the date by which the department of health must submit to the governor, the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and legislative committees with subject matter jurisdictio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1354 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the department to develop and implement a suicide prevention program; requires the department to submit a report to legislative committees with jurisdiction over health-related matters on this program and any suggestions from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0597 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires, by January 15 of each year, the commissioner of health to annually report to legislative committees on the progress of its statewide strategy for the provision of adult emergency oral health care, utilizing public and private...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0502 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the scope of practice for athletic trainers by authorizing them to treat conditions that limit or prevent a person's participation in certain physical activities rather than just treating injuries that limit or prevent such par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0922 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the commissioner to conduct a study on creating new or streamlining existing pathways to careers as primary care providers in this state for individuals who have medical training as noncommissioned officers in the armed forces ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0424 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits the services authorized in a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement to include weight management services. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1242 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision that required the comptroller of the treasury, in conjunction with any appropriate TennCare drug utilization review committees, to study the use of prescription drugs in nursing homes and the costs of thos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0786 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that test materials and test data from psychological or neuropsychological testing be kept secure to avoid compromising the validity of the testing; makes other changes related to security of psychological or neuropsychologica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
