| TN | SB1681 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a hospital emergency department, including a satellite emergency department, from denying to a woman who presents at such facility and purports or, if incapacitated, appears to be pregnant and experiencing active labor, other sy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27
Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| TN | HB1943 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a hospital emergency department, including a satellite emergency department, from denying to a woman who presents at such facility and purports or, if incapacitated, appears to be pregnant and experiencing active labor, other sy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1080 |
| TN | HB2290 | Pass | As enacted, requires each fertility clinic operating in this state to obtain a certificate from the department of health to perform assisted reproductive technology services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 36; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1139 |
| TN | SB2461 | Pass | As enacted, requires each fertility clinic operating in this state to obtain a certificate from the department of health to perform assisted reproductive technology services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 36; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27
Effective date(s) 05/22/2026, 01/01/2027 |
| TN | HB1867 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2026." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| TN | SB1939 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2026." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 991 |
| TN | SB1584 | Pass | As enacted, lowers the age of an inpatient from 65 to 50 or older when a hospital, each year from October 1 through March 1, must offer immunization against influenza disease prior to discharge; requires a hospital to offer immunization against pneum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 922 |
| TN | HB1899 | Pass | As enacted, increases from three to five the maximum number of nonrelated persons in a home for the aged to be considered a tier 1 home for the aged; increases from four to six the maximum number of nonrelated persons in a home for the aged to be con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 973 |
| TN | SB2083 | Pass | As enacted, increases from three to five the maximum number of nonrelated persons in a home for the aged to be considered a tier 1 home for the aged; increases from four to six the maximum number of nonrelated persons in a home for the aged to be con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/13/2026 |
| TN | HB2569 | Pass | As enacted, lowers the age of an inpatient from 65 to 50 or older when a hospital, each year from October 1 through March 1, must offer immunization against influenza disease prior to discharge; requires a hospital to offer immunization against pneum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| TN | HB2337 | Pass | As enacted, requires the attorney general, in making a decision as to whether to object to a public benefit hospital conveyance transaction, to consider whether the proceeds will be controlled as funds independently of the acquiring or related entiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-05
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 718 |
| TN | SB2194 | Pass | As enacted, requires the attorney general, in making a decision as to whether to object to a public benefit hospital conveyance transaction, to consider whether the proceeds will be controlled as funds independently of the acquiring or related entiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-05
Effective date(s) 04/16/2026 |
| TN | SB2246 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 15 to 30 days, the time before the originally scheduled health facilities commission meeting at which an applicant's certificate of need application is to be heard by the commission by which a healthcare institution wish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB2558 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 15 to 30 days, the time before the originally scheduled health facilities commission meeting at which an applicant's certificate of need application is to be heard by the commission by which a healthcare institution wish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
No Action Taken |
| TN | HB2166 | Fail | As introduced, requires a blood bank to comply with a physician's order for an autologous blood donation or directed blood donation for a specific patient; requires a hospital to allow a patient who is scheduled for a medical procedure to provide an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
Failed in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | SB2307 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "The Frank J. Lake III Act"; requires a long-term care ombudsman for an assisted-care living facility to notify all residents of such facility if the facility contacts the ombudsman; directs the health facilities commission ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-17
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | HB1688 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "The Frank J. Lake III Act"; requires a long-term care ombudsman for an assisted-care living facility to notify all residents of such facility if the facility contacts the ombudsman; directs the health facilities commission ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | SB1947 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a blood bank to comply with a physician's order for an autologous blood donation or directed blood donation for a specific patient; requires a hospital to allow a patient who is scheduled for a medical procedure to provide an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2496 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a hospital from negotiating or entering into an anti-competitive agreement or engage in anti-competitive conduct with other hospitals in this state; prohibits state funds from being used to facilitate, or otherwise further, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | HB0495 | Pass | As enacted, rewrites the fee limits for a party requesting a patient's medical record in either paper or electronic format from a provider or the provider's third-party release of information provider. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025 |
| TN | SB0606 | Pass | As enacted, rewrites the fee limits for a party requesting a patient's medical record in either paper or electronic format from a provider or the provider's third-party release of information provider. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 339 |
| TN | HB0843 | Pass | As enacted, declares Perry County Community Hospital in Linden and Decatur County General Hospital in Parsons to be necessary providers for the purpose of critical access hospital designation eligibility in accordance with Section 1820 of the Social ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-28
Effective date(s) 04/11/2025 |
| TN | SB1198 | Pass | As enacted, declares Perry County Community Hospital in Linden and Decatur County General Hospital in Parsons to be necessary providers for the purpose of critical access hospital designation eligibility in accordance with Section 1820 of the Social ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 196 |
| TN | HB0584 | Pass | As enacted, extends by four years to June 30, 2029, the current 125-bed limitation on the number of new nursing home beds for which the health facilities commission may issue a certificate of need per fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 68-11-1619.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 65 |
| TN | SB0515 | Pass | As enacted, extends by four years to June 30, 2029, the current 125-bed limitation on the number of new nursing home beds for which the health facilities commission may issue a certificate of need per fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 68-11-1619.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Effective date(s) 03/25/2025 |
| 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 | SB0853 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Healthcare Quality and Access Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34; Title 42; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB0032 | 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] | 2025-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | HB0970 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Healthcare Quality and Access Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34; Title 42; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0666 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the executive director of the health facilities commission to submit a report no later than July 1, rather than February 1, of each year to the governor, the chief clerk of the house of representatives, and the chief clerk of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB1167 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the dissolution and reconstitution, upon appointments by the governor, of the board of directors of any hospital that is part of a certificate of public advantage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee |
| 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 | HB0724 | 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] | 2025-02-06
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB0517 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the executive director of the health facilities commission to submit a report no later than July 1, rather than February 1, of each year to the governor, the chief clerk of the house of representatives, and the chief clerk of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
