| 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 |
| TN | HB1194 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to law relative to the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care program. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 221 |
| TN | SB0678 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to law relative to the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care program. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/25/2023 |
| TN | SB0614 | Pass | As enacted, requires hospitals that have a certification from a department-approved, nationally recognized certifying body recognizing the hospital as capable of providing neuroendovascular treatment to report data quarterly consistent with nationall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/04/2023 |
| TN | SB0925 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Quinnlee's Law." - Amends TCA Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 03/31/2023 |
| TN | HB1315 | 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] | 2023-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB1313 | Pass | As enacted, requires hospitals that have a certification from a department-approved, nationally recognized certifying body recognizing the hospital as capable of providing neuroendovascular treatment to report data quarterly consistent with nationall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 123 |
| TN | HB1429 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Quinnlee's Law." - Amends TCA Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 99 |
| TN | HB0066 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities to provide home health services to outpatients through its administration of the Tennessee Early Intervention System and the home- and community-based services provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 24 |
| TN | SB0248 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities to provide home health services to outpatients through its administration of the Tennessee Early Intervention System and the home- and community-based services provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Effective date(s) 03/10/2023 |
| TN | SB0162 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0597 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1393 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB0283 | Fail | As introduced, requires a hospital to offer immunization for influenza disease prior to discharging a patient who is 50 years of age or older from the hospital between October 1 and March 1; requires a hospital to offer an inpatient who is 65 years o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
Failed in Health Committee |
| TN | SB0325 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0670 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0912 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0465 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes a requirement, with regard to developing standards for determining eligibility for the care and treatment of persons suffering from epilepsy and other seizure disorders under a department program, that the department of health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB0829 | Fail | As introduced, enacts the "Fundamental Right to Reproductive Health Care Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
Failed in s/c Population Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | SB0140 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0547 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the annual report by the board of dentistry to be made by February 1 each year and sent to the general assembly, in addition to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB0172 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 67 and Title 68, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB0777 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-03-07
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee |
| TN | SB1469 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0747 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a hospital to offer immunization for influenza disease prior to discharging a patient who is 50 years of age or older from the hospital between October 1 and March 1; requires a hospital to offer an inpatient who is 65 years o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB0762 | Fail | As introduced, enacts the "Fundamental Right to Reproductive Health Care Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1104 | Fail | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act," which establishes a medical cannabis program to be administered by the medical cannabis commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38, Chapter 3; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43; Title 50; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1508 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the deadline for the medical cannabis commission to file its annual report from January 1 to January 15, beginning in 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 43; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
Sponsor change. |
| TN | HB0494 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-02-27
Sponsor(s) withdrawn. |
| TN | HB1378 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the “Youth Health Protection Act.” - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 14; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-21
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1461 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 67 and Title 68, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB1447 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-02-07
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1441 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act," which establishes a medical cannabis program to be administered by the medical cannabis commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38, Chapter 3; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43; Title 50; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1325 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-02-07
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee |
| TN | SB0737 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, by September 1, the department of health to submit a report to the chairs of the general assembly's health-related committees concerning the number of hospitals found, within the last 20 years, to have failed to provide emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0985 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0896 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0695 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the office of child nutrition and wellness in the department of health to submit an annual report by February 1 of each year to the chairs of the health and welfare committee of the senate and the health committee of the house...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB0780 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the accounting of long-term care expenditures for nursing facility services; home and community-based services made under the CHOICES long-term healthcare program; and employment and Community First CHOICES services under a wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB0840 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-02-02
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB1142 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, by September 1, the department of health to submit a report to the chairs of the general assembly's health-related committees concerning the number of hospitals found, within the last 20 years, to have failed to provide emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB1356 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the deadline for the medical cannabis commission to file its annual report from January 1 to January 15, beginning in 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 43; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB0440 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the office of child nutrition and wellness in the department of health to submit an annual report by February 1 of each year to the chairs of the health and welfare committee of the senate and the health committee of the house...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB0466 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the annual report by the board of dentistry to be made by February 1 each year and sent to the general assembly, in addition to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB0497 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes a requirement, with regard to developing standards for determining eligibility for the care and treatment of persons suffering from epilepsy and other seizure disorders under a department program, that the department of health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB0568 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the annual report by each nurse home visitor program to be submitted to the department of health, in addition to the health care and services facility administering the program and the community in which the program is adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB0614 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-02-01
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | SB0222 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the annual report by each nurse home visitor program to be submitted to the department of health, in addition to the health care and services facility administering the program and the community in which the program is adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0220 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes a code provision that created a task force to review the regulations of the residential and day provider agencies contracted by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities, which ceased to exist as of June 30,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | HB0357 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-01-30
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
