Roll Call: TN SB0777 | 2017-2018 | 110th General Assembly
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Bill Title: As enacted, makes various changes and additions to law concerning opioids; creates task force with duty to promulgate rules that create a uniform minimum disciplinary action that will apply to any healthcare practitioner who treats a human patient with an opioid and that healthcare practitioner's licensing board or agency finds that the healthcare practitioner engaged in a significant deviation or pattern of deviation from sound medical judgment; requires comptroller to conduct certain studies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-05-23 - Pub. Ch. 978 [SB0777 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Bill Title: As enacted, makes various changes and additions to law concerning opioids; creates task force with duty to promulgate rules that create a uniform minimum disciplinary action that will apply to any healthcare practitioner who treats a human patient with an opioid and that healthcare practitioner's licensing board or agency finds that the healthcare practitioner engaged in a significant deviation or pattern of deviation from sound medical judgment; requires comptroller to conduct certain studies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-05-23 - Pub. Ch. 978 [SB0777 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Vote: FLOOR VOTE: PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION
| Vote | Tally | Democrat | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yea | 83 | 18 | 65 |
| Nay | 1 | 1 | - |
| Not Voting | - | - | - |
| Absent | - | - | - |
| TOTAL | 84 | 19 | 65 |
