| TN | HJR0096 | Engross
Recessed | Music Therapy Week
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1170 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, increases the length of notice the executive director of the board must give a person holding a current licensure registration to practice as a professional or registered nurse that the renewal fee is due, from 60 days to 65 days prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0282 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, deletes provisions related to a report regarding the status of the development of a plan for a statewide system of care for children's mental health due by February 1, 2009, and plans regarding implementation of the system of children'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0431 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes an individual licensed in another state to practice medicine to practice telehealth in this state if the patient cannot otherwise receive the services the healthcare provider will provide within this state and the healthcare...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1161 | Intro
Recessed | 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] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0290 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the department of health to seek federal funding to implement programs for the prevention, testing, and treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) for residents of this state, including programs in partnership with commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0307 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the individual that signs the death certificate of a decedent, or an agent of the individual, to ask whether the family or other appropriate person wants to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part; prohibits a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0162 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, increases from 15 to 20 the number of days before the health facilities commission meeting at which an application for a certificate of need is originally scheduled that a healthcare institution wishing to oppose the application must f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0459 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, directs the bureau to establish, by January 1, 2024, a statewide program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) to provide comprehensive, integrated acute and long-term care services for qualifying frail, elderly individuals who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1393 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes a hospital or healthcare provider to charge, in response to a request for copies of records for an individual to appeal a denial of social security disability insurance or supplemental security income, a patient, patient rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0778 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the department to obtain specific authorization from the general assembly before seeking, applying for, accepting, or renewing a waiver of work requirements established by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0327 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, clarifies that protocols developed using evidence-based medicine and authorized by the bureau be made available to TennCare providers and managed care organizations on the bureau's website; requires updates or revisions to such protoco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0230 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1414 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, directs the bureau to establish a temporary TennCare benefits program to provide medical assistance on a temporary basis to certain individuals who do not qualify for enrollment in TennCare, CoverKids, or a successor program; requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0453 | Intro
Recessed | 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 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1171 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, expands the scope of practice for physician assistants, subject to increased regulatory oversight by the board of physician assistants as part of such expanded practice. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 19, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0325 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the department of health to develop a database consisting of information related to uterine fibroids; requires healthcare providers who treat women with uterine fibroids to submit certain demographic and other relevant informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0733 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider from prescribing a buprenorphine product unless the patient has first signed a copy of an informational document on the risks of buprenorphine use to pregnant women, unborn children, and infants; require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1278 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the department of health to provide voluntary reversible long-acting contraception to women at no charge. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1079 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, removes an obsolete cross-reference to a statute that was repealed in 2010. - Amends TCA Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1361 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse in-network dental services providers for a dental service provided to a TennCare recipient at a rate that is no less than the amount identified as the national median fee for that dental service accordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1405 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the department to study COVID-19 exemptions based on religion or rights of conscience in neighbor states and report findings to the health committees by January 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 14; Title 29; Title 36; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0912 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, removes provisions that required health-related boards affected by law relating to prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances to report to the general assembly by January 1, 2019, on issues related to the implementation of tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1428 | Intro
Recessed | 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 discharg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0911 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, extends certain COVID protections for healthcare providers. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159, and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1269 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, removes the prohibition on the governor expanding optional enrollment in the TennCare program pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unless authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1363 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the bureau to ensure that providers of adult day care services are reimbursed based upon the amount of services that are authorized on behalf of the eligible adult, and without regard for the eligible adult's attendance or abs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0670 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, allows the submission of applications for licenses, permits, and certificates by emergency medical services personnel, and applicable fees, before the expiration date of the license, permit, or certificate to extend the license's, perm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0541 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, increases from five to seven the minimum number of children a facility must have under its care for three or more hours per day in order to fall within the definition of a child care agency for licensing purposes. - Amends TCA Title 71...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1148 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, makes various provisions regarding COVID-19 permanent. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29; Title 38; Title 49; Title 50; Title 63; Title 68 and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0369 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, specifies that meat may be labeled as being free of mRNA vaccine if the animals from which the meat was derived were not administered an mRNA vaccine; removes authorization for the commissioner of agriculture and the state veterinarian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0381 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, deletes the termination provision for the title addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, which would have terminated July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29; Title 38; Title 49; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0140 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, increases the number of days a heathcare provider has to furnish a patient's medical records to a patient from 10 to 20 working days from the date of the patient's request. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0299 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires healthcare facilities and long-term care facilities to permit in-person visitation of a patient or resident by family members and community pastoral care members; allows the facilities to place limitations on the frequency and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0974 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1505 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the department to actively seek and apply for federal grants and other available federal funds, and utilize available federal funds, for the purpose of alleviating childhood hunger. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1469 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, clarifies that prescribing hormone treatment for minors is not a standard medical practice when the treatment is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | HJR0321 | Engross
Recessed | Disability Advocacy Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1020 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires a prescribing healthcare practitioner to discuss certain risks associated with a prescribed Schedule II controlled substance prior to an initial prescription and following the third prescription of the drug during a course of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0128 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the bureau to establish a pilot program during the 2024-2025 fiscal year to provide payment for doula care services for pregnant women enrolled in the TennCare program who meet certain criteria; authorizes the director to seek...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0468 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, removes certain limitations placed on a person trying to meet the educational requirement for licensure as a polysomnographic technologist by presenting proof of successful completion of an accredited sleep technologist educational pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-21
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1114 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires a procurement organization, or such organization's designee, that contacts an individual following the death of the decedent for purposes of allowing the individual to make an anatomical gift to explain to the individual that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1033 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the commissioner to submit a report by January 1, 2024, on the implementation of, and results from, the Child Nutrition and Wellness Act of 2006, to the chair of the senate health and welfare committee, the chair of the health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0985 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, lessens from 30 to 15 days of any change, the time within which an enrollee in, and applicant for, TennCare uninsured or uninsurable coverage must notify the bureau of TennCare by mailing documentation of a material change affecting in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0869 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes as part of the practice of pharmacy the prescribing of dietary fluoride supplements, certain immunization agents, opioid antagonists, and certain other drugs and products; makes various other changes to pharmacy practice. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1315 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse air-based ambulance service providers, along with ground-based ambulance service providers, at a rate of no less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0761 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, deletes obsolete provision requiring the commissioner, in consultation with the perinatal advisory committee, to deliver a report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0997 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the annual report of the department of mental health and substance abuse services regarding its use of funds to provide treatment services to individuals with gambling disorders in this state to be filed and published on Janua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0896 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires each county to submit its annual plan of expenditures of state grant-in-aid funds from the department of health by January 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0804 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes the board of examiners in psychology to designate as a health service provider in this state a person who has held a license to practice psychology in another state under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
