| TN | SB0734 | Engross
50% | As introduced, removes the start date of January 1, 2012, for the requirement that a healthcare practitioner communicate the practitioner's full name and type of license in writing to a patient at the patient's initial office visit. - Amends TCA Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Message Calendar for 4/22/2024 |
| TN | SB1766 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, 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,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB1936 | Engross
50% | As introduced, changes the application requirements for international medical school graduates applying for special licenses. - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| TN | SB2022 | Engross
50% | As introduced, continues the requirement that a temporary healthcare staffing agency presently doing business in this state provide notice to the health facilities commission identifying its business entity and any controlling person by December 31 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2297 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, changes certain requirements for healthcare providers who are not physicians to qualify to prescribe a buprenorphine product for the treatment of opioid use disorder, recovery, or medication-assisted treatment. - Amends TCA Title 33; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB2176 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes from code an outdated requirement that the polysomnography professional standards committee hold at least one public meeting each year during the years 2007 through 2010 to allow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] | 2024-04-15
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB1791 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires all infants born in this state to be screened for specific genetic, metabolic, or other heritable conditions, including, but not limited to, conditions listed on the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP); allows the depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0674 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits the services authorized in a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement to include weight management services; requires the bureau of TennCare to make available, or cause to be made available, anti-obesity medication to a recipi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1720 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires certain information to be included in a healthcare practitioner advertisement; adds certain activities to and exempts certain activities from the definition of the practice of medicine. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2012 | Engross
50% | As introduced, broadens the electronic health care records modernization act to include subjecting healthcare entities to injunctive relief and civil penalties for interfering with their patients accessing electronic health information and prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2009 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the health facilities commission, within 10 working days after concluding an inspection or investigation of a nursing home, to mail to the nursing home the executive director's order, which must not only inform the nursing hom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2368 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration, or the commissioner's designee, to make available to the public on the department's website any proposed budget document or other financial publication that lists complex rehabil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1793 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, allows unlicensed persons who have completed a competency-based training program and are employed by certain personal support service agencies licensed under title 33 to administer certain medications to individuals who are incapable o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2004 | Engross
50% | As introduced, prohibits a licensed professional counselor, licensed marital and family therapist, or licensed clinical pastoral therapist from receiving compensation for services rendered in a free health clinic, including, but not limited to, reimb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2482 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that a minor's parent or legal guardian have access to the minor's prescription records even when the minor is able to obtain treatment without parental consent. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 66 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1313 | Intro
25% | As introduced, limits what can be included in calculating the permissible costs that may be charged for copying and mailing a patient's medical records. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Section 63-2-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1874 | Intro
25% | As introduced, for the purposes of regulation of health and related facilities, exempts from the definition of "home health service" services provided by a person or entity that solely provides services of occupational and physical therapy or communi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2104 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2454 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2812 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1739 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2231 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2275 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2450 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0862 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 526 |
| TN | SB1242 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 527 |
| TN | SB2177 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2480 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2553 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1804 | 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] | 2024-03-12
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee / no second |
| TN | SB2396 | Fail | 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] | 2024-03-12
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee / no motion |
| TN | SB2403 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-11
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1883 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2552 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2600 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2738 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2140 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2050 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1955 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1794 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1829 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "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 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB7097 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7055 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB0219 | 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
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0698 | 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
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | SB0702 | 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
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0458 | 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
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | SB0666 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Prior Authorization Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 395 |
| TN | SB0329 | 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
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0721 | Pass | As enacted, exempts a patient receiving an initial behavioral health evaluation via telehealth from the requirement that a patient have an in-person encounter with a healthcare services provider, the healthcare services provider’s practice group, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/24/2023 |
