| TN | SB1969 | Pass | As enacted, requires the court that finds a person incompetent to stand trial for a criminal offense due to intellectual disability to also determine whether the person is subject to involuntary care and treatment at the hearing in which the person i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | HB2693 | Pass | As enacted, requires the court that finds a person incompetent to stand trial for a criminal offense due to intellectual disability to also determine whether the person is subject to involuntary care and treatment at the hearing in which the person i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1031 |
| TN | HB1643 | Pass | As enacted, requires the state to pay the cost of a court-ordered mental health evaluation and treatment for criminal defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be incompetent to stand trial or for whom there is a questio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2028 | Pass | As enacted, requires the state to pay the cost of a court-ordered mental health evaluation and treatment for criminal defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be incompetent to stand trial or for whom there is a questio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 905 |
| TN | HB1625 | Pass | As enacted, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional or analyst determines that a service recipient has communicated an intent for actual thre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | HB1640 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Jillian's Law," which makes various changes relative to being adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution, including requiring a person judicially committed to remain committed until the compe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1682 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to emergency involuntary admission to inpatient treatment and judicial commitment for nonemergency involuntary inpatient treatment. - Amends TCA Section 33-6-503 and Section 33-6-421.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1673 | Pass | As enacted, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional or analyst determines that a service recipient has communicated an intent for actual thre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 783 |
| TN | SB1769 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Jillian's Law," which makes various changes relative to being adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution, including requiring a person judicially committed to remain committed until the compe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 784 |
| TN | SB2079 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to emergency involuntary admission to inpatient treatment and judicial commitment for nonemergency involuntary inpatient treatment. - Amends TCA Section 33-6-503 and Section 33-6-421.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 785 |
| TN | SB1681 | Pass | As enacted, requires, in cases where a person is ordered into emergency or nonemergency admission to involuntary commitment and is to be released, the chief officer of the releasing facility to notify, by electronic means, local law enforcement prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 10/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1787 | Pass | As enacted, by May 31, 2025, and by each May 31 thereafter, requires the department of health to publish an annual report stating the total number of attempted suicides and completed suicides that have occurred in this state in the previous calendar ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | HB2061 | Pass | As enacted, requires, in cases where a person is ordered into emergency or nonemergency admission to involuntary commitment and is to be released, the chief officer of the releasing facility to notify, by electronic means, local law enforcement prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 656 |
| TN | HB2327 | Pass | As enacted, by May 31, 2025, and by each May 31 thereafter, requires the department of health to publish an annual report stating the total number of attempted suicides and completed suicides that have occurred in this state in the previous calendar ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 678 |
| TN | SB1839 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 14 calendar days to 14 business days, the time in which the Tennessee opioid abatement council must decline the department of mental health and substance abuse services's recommendation for a candidate to be executive di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | HB2291 | N/A
0% | As introduced, increases from 14 calendar days to 14 business days, the time in which the Tennessee opioid abatement council must decline the department of mental health and substance abuse services's recommendation for a candidate to be executive di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | HB1143 | Intro
25% | As introduced, lowers from one hour and 45 minutes to one hour and 30 minutes, the amount of time that the sheriff or transportation agent is required to remain at a hospital or treatment resource, which provides treatment for persons with mental ill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | HB0305 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes references for mental defect, mental defective, and mentally defective to mental health condition throughout the code. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 41; Title 57; Title 62 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
Sponsor change. |
| TN | SB1653 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of mental health to produce an annual report on suicide, including the number of completed and attempted suicides statewide, as well as broken down by county and means, and other demographics, including age, rac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | HB7008 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to take certain steps to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional determines that a service recipient has made an actual threat of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-29
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB7027 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires the state to pay the cost of a court-ordered mental health evaluation and treatment for criminal defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be incompetent to stand trial or for whom there is a ques...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-28
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB7028 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies the meaning of “local law enforcement” for purposes of the required notification to law enforcement by an inpatient mental health treatment facility or hospital that a service recipient has been committed; requires the cl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Taken off notice for cal. in Civil Justice Committee of 1st Extraordinary Session |
| TN | SB7008 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the statutory duty that qualified mental health professionals and licensed behavior analysts have to notify potential victims and law enforcement of an actual threat of bodily harm against a clearly identified victim made by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7021 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds categories of victims and geographic targets that are the subject of threats communicated by a service recipient as targets that require certain actions by a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst; requires repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7078 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to take certain steps to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional determines that a service recipient has made an actual threat of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7080 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the state to pay the cost of a court-ordered mental health evaluation and treatment for criminal defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be incompetent to stand trial or for whom there is a ques...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | HB7025 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds categories of victims and geographic targets that are the subject of threats communicated by a service recipient as targets that require certain actions by a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst; requires repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | SB7006 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies the meaning of “local law enforcement” for purposes of the required notification to law enforcement by an inpatient mental health treatment facility or hospital that a service recipient has been committed; requires the cl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | HB7058 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the statutory duty that qualified mental health professionals and licensed behavior analysts have to notify potential victims and law enforcement of an actual threat of bodily harm against a clearly identified victim made by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee |
| TN | HB7089 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that a law enforcement officer detain a person for mental health examination prior to issuing a charge or arrest if the officer has reason to believe the person is subject to detention for the purpose of examination for certif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB7048 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes physician assistants to be designated professionals in order to complete the first certificate of need in support of hospitalization for a person when other specified professionals are not available. - Amends TCA Title 33.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee |
| TN | SB7069 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that a law enforcement officer detain a person for mental health examination prior to issuing a charge or arrest if the officer has reason to believe the person is subject to detention for the purpose of examination for certif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB0672 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes certain licensed advanced practice nurses and physician assistants to execute a certificate of need if a person is admitted and detained by a hospital or treatment resource for emergency diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment; ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1051 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes certain licensed advanced practice nurses and physician assistants to execute a certificate of need if a person is admitted and detained by a hospital or treatment resource for emergency diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment; ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 199 |
| TN | HB0508 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows courts to order a person into a program of assisted outpatient mental health treatment upon finding certain conditions are met; provides a process for certain persons to petition a court on behalf of a proposed patient; establis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-17
To House Health Subcommittee |
| TN | SB0738 | Intro
25% | As introduced, lowers from one hour and 45 minutes to one hour and 30 minutes, the amount of time that the sheriff or transportation agent is required to remain at a hospital or treatment resource, which provides treatment for persons with mental ill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0553 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes references for mental defect, mental defective, and mentally defective to mental health condition throughout the code. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 41; Title 57; Title 62 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0179 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows courts to order a person into a program of assisted outpatient mental health treatment upon finding certain conditions are met; provides a process for certain persons to petition a court on behalf of a proposed patient; establis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
