| TN | HB2147 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to wheelchair repair. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1050 |
| TN | HB2328 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to the regulation of licensed professional counselors, licensed marital and family therapists, and licensed clinical pastoral therapists. - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1035 |
| TN | HB2861 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from coercing a person, including a person who has legal authority to make healthcare decisions for a child, to consent to a vaccination, misleading or misrepresenting that a vaccination is required by stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1043 |
| TN | HB2269 | Pass | As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to certificate of need. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024, 07/01/2024, 07/01/2025,12/01/2025,12/01/2027,12/01/2029 |
| TN | HB0628 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Wellness Law." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 924 |
| TN | HB2011 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to electronic medical records; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 931 |
| TN | HB2366 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to international medical school graduates applying for and utilizing special licenses. - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 929 |
| TN | HB2451 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Provider Advertising Law." - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2650 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to the health facilities commission; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 932 |
| TN | HB1882 | Pass | As enacted, requires a healthcare provider to provide to a patient or the patient’s authorized representative a full copy of the patient’s medical records within 10 working days of receipt of a written request by the patient or representative, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 831 |
| TN | HB2226 | Pass | As enacted, adds to the composition of the Tennessee maternal mortality review and prevention team four members appointed by the commissioner of health who are from community-based organizations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 834 |
| TN | HB0647 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law regarding costs of reproduction, copying, or mailing of certain medical records. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Section 63-2-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1853 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies, for the purposes of regulation of health and related facilities, what constitutes "home health services." - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2773 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Cassie Wright Act," which makes changes to law relative to a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian having access to certain medical information of their unemancipated minor. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 66 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| TN | HB2081 | Pass | As enacted, allows unlicensed persons who have completed a competency-based training program, and who are employed by certain personal support service agencies licensed under law relative to mental health, substance abuse, and intellectual and develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 730 |
| TN | HB2902 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes from code an outdated requirement that the polysomnography professional standards committee hold at least one public meeting each year during the years 2007 through 2010 to allow public discussion of new developments in the pra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2907 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits physicians from prescribing, administering, or dispensing medication for, or otherwise treating, themselves, immediate family, and other specified individuals except for specified or emergency situations; prohibits a physicia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Held on desk. |
| TN | HB2374 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a health insurance carrier to provide certain information used by the health insurance carrier to calculate payments paid to the healthcare provider within 10 calendar days, rather than 10 business days, of receipt of a writte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Taken off notice for cal. in Calendar & Rules Committee |
| TN | HB2225 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds doula services performed by a person with a verification of certification to the list of services that may be provided as medical assistance under the TennCare program; directs the department of health to establish by rule a proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | HB2334 | Fail | As introduced, requires the department of health, in conjunction with the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities, to submit an annual report concerning the level of compliance with state law of each healthcare facility in this stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Failed in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | HB2502 | Fail | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Autonomy Related to Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 57; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Failed in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | HB2275 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, replaces the current requirements to qualify for employment as a surgical technologist with successful completion of a nationally accredited surgical technology program recognized by the Health Facilities Commission. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | HB2438 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires public schools in this state that serve any combination of grades nine through 12 to maintain an opioid antagonist in at least one location in the school. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2663 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from January 15 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of health, in consultation with the department of finance and administration and any other state agency involved in the administration of the safety net program, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | HB1071 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-18
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB1170 | Pass | As enacted, requires the Tennessee peace officer standards and training (POST) commission to adopt guidelines and materials instructing law enforcement officers on the best practices for recognizing and responding to a medical crisis involving a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 03/07/2024 |
| TN | HB1163 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act." - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 56.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 03/07/2024 |
| TN | HB2816 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires gender clinics accepting funds from this state to perform gender transition procedures to also perform detransition procedures; requires insurance entities providing coverage of gender transition procedures to also cover detra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Taken off notice for cal. in Health Committee |
| TN | HB2330 | Fail | 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] | 2024-03-12
Failed in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | HB2599 | Fail | 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] | 2024-03-12
Failed in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | HB2543 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits an ambulance service that has exclusive rights to provide emergency services within a county, municipality, or geographic area from charging rates that are unreasonable, excessive, or based on rates charged by entities that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | HB1943 | Fail | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Contraceptive Freedom Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Failed in s/c Population Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | HB1985 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expresses the intent that the department of finance and administration, in coordination with the departments of health and mental health and substance abuse services, give priority to efforts that facilitate the expansion of a health c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | HB2361 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that one of the persons appointed to the medical cannabis commission by the speaker of the senate must be a specialist in the area of substance abuse prevention. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2721 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of health to publish on its website information on the possibility of reversing the effects of a chemical abortion in any language that is the primary language spoken by 0.5 percent or more of this state's popul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB2913 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes an outdated requirement that the apprentice plan developed by the boards and commissions of the various medical professions, in consultation with the division of health related boards, be submitted to the speakers, the governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB0377 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Patient Rights Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB1205 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a full medical record to be provided within 24 hours of a written request submitted by a person with power of attorney for health care to make health care decisions for a patient; grants 24-hour patient visitation rights to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB2189 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, by January 1, 2025, requires the department of health to report to legislative committees the number of persons in this state who have died from accidental fentanyl poisoning over the last 10 years, the methods used by the department t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB2157 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a healthcare provider providing a vaccination to a minor to include in the minor's electronic medical record proof of prior parental or guardian informed consent. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2065 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits assisted-care living facilities with approval from the board for licensing healthcare facilities to comply with a requirement to post information in the facility by making such information available on an electronic screen clea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1972 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes reference to an outdated address for the National Society of Genetic Counselors, at which a copy of the code of ethics may be obtained and, instead, refers to the address listed on the website. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB7104 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires TennCare to ensure certain reimbursement rates, expand access to providers, and prohibit quantitative benefit limits for behavioral health services. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-25
Assigned to s/c Insurance Subcommittee of 1st Extraordinary Session |
| TN | HB7083 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of health to conduct a study of laws in contiguous states concerning certifications and training programs required for healthcare professionals to provide mental health services. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB0271 | Pass | As enacted, establishes certain rules regarding certified psychological testing technicians. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 442 |
| TN | HB1095 | Pass | As enacted, places requirements for registration of a temporary healthcare staffing agency. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 50; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 432 |
| TN | HB1358 | Pass | As enacted, directs the department of health to officially request the United States department of health and human services to add newborn screening for metachromatic leukodystrophy to the recommended uniform screening panel. - Amends TCA Title 14; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 431 |
| TN | HB0496 | Pass | As enacted, requires certain health related boards to either render a decision on the application or inform the applicant of the need to appear before such board within 60 days from the date the respective board receives a completed application for l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 426 |
| TN | HB0885 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Prior Authorization Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2025 |
| TN | HB0514 | Pass | As enacted, revises law requiring the governor to appoint three members to the medical cannabis commission, such that at least one member must be a patient who has been diagnosed with a qualifying medical disease or condition and who can establish th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 258 |
