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TN - Representative Tom Leatherwood (R)

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TN - Representative Aftyn Behn (D)

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TN - Representative Kip Capley (R)

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TN - Representative Michele Carringer (R)

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TN - Representative John Ray Clemmons (D)

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TN - Representative Jeremy Faison (R)

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TN - Representative Andrew Farmer (R)

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TN - Representative John Gillespie (R)

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TN - Representative Yusuf Hakeem (D)

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TN - Representative David Hawk (R)

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TN - Representative Esther Helton-Haynes (R)

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TN - Representative Caleb Hemmer (D)

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TN - Representative Gary Hicks (R)

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TN - Representative Tim Hicks (R)

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TN - Representative Darren Jernigan (D)

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TN - Representative Timothy Hill (R)

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TN - Representative Brock Martin (R)

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TN - Representative Bo Mitchell (D)

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TN - Representative Iris Rudder (R)

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TN - Representative Paul Sherrell (R)

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TN - Representative Ron Travis (R)

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TN - Representative Kevin Vaughan (R)

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TN - Representative Sam Whitson (R)

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TN - HB2406 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to identify federal and state regulations that inhibit the efficient processing of applications and delivery of benefits for the food assistance program; requires the department to submit any necessary waiver applications by October 31; requires the department to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the general assembly by December 31. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB2587 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to investigate and report on the shortage of ambulances in this state, with the investigation to include a detailed analysis of the cause of such shortages and the effect on the health and safety of citizens in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 68, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2901 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes prerequisites for emergency detention and admission to a treatment facility from "immediate" substantial likelihood of serious harm to "imminent" substantial likelihood of serious harm. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 41 and Title 68.

TN - HB2452 Children - As introduced, removes the declaration that it is the responsibility of each parent and legal guardian to ensure that their children are vaccinated according to Center for Disease Control or American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines, and replaces the declaration with a recommendation that children be vaccinated with vaccines recommended by the commissioner of health when advised by the parent or legal guardian's trusted healthcare provider. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB2914 Medical Occupations - As introduced, changes the requirements for when the board of medical examiners may issue a temporary license of limited duration to an international medical school graduate. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB2254 Children - As introduced, adds three persons to the state child fatality review team who are each state residents with a child under 18 years of age; requires the state child fatality review team to distribute the team's annual report to each local education agency and to the board of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.

TN - HB1195 Therapists, Physical and Occupational - As enacted, allows the practice of physical therapy to be under the written or oral referral of a nurse practitioner or physician assistant; removes certain minimum education requirements to engage in the independent practice of physical therapy. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB2477 Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires the department of health to reimburse an applicant's first attempt fee for taking the NREMT examination, a condition for an initial EMT or paramedic license to be issued, so long as the applicant has current or pending employment as an EMT, and has made a formal written request to the department. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB665 Opioids - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider from prescribing a buprenorphine product unless the patient has first signed a copy of an informational document on the risks of buprenorphine use to pregnant women, unborn children, and infants; requires the department of health to make available on its public website the informational document within 90 days of the effective date of the act. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HB496 Health Care - 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 licensure from either an initial applicant or an applicant who is licensed in another state or territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Ch...

TN - HB778 Abortion - As introduced, limits the offense of criminal abortion to only apply to elective abortions; defines elective abortion as any abortion that is not medically necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or to prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2308 Health Care - 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; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB299 Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any livestock carcass, part of any livestock carcass, or meat food product that contains a mRNA vaccine or vaccine material unless the product labeling contains a conspicuous notification of the presence of the mRNA vaccine or vaccine material in the product. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.

TN - HB834 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HB325 Opioids - As enacted, permanently extends the present law, which is set to terminate on July 1, 2023, that establishes limitations on the prescription of opioids and authorizes the promulgation of rules related to the calculation of those limitations and makes other changes relative to opioids. - Amends TCA Section 53-10-303; Section 63-1-164 and Chapter 1039 of the Public Acts of 2018.

TN - HB363 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, establishes a grant program within the department to provide health care, child care support, workforce transition skills, and other benefits to new mothers. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 50; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB634 Children - As enacted, creates the child care improvement fund, to be administered by the department of human services; creates a child care improvement pilot program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to be used for establishing a new child care agency in this state or making improvements to, or assisting with staffing, recruitment, or salary gaps, at an existing child care agency in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 37 and Title 71.

TN - HB666 Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the board of examiners in psychology to designate as a health service provider in this state a person who has held a license to practice psychology in another state under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 11.

TN - HB1051 Mental Illness - 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; makes other revisions to the execution of certificates of need. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 6, Part 4.

TN - HB1455 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, removes a reference to a repealed section that required the division of health related boards to provide to the board of pharmacy the names of all nurse practitioners and physician assistants who are authorized to write and sign prescriptions or issue legend drugs in Tennessee and the names of their supervising physicians. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB966 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, removes the requirement to obtain a certificate of need to establish or relocate certain healthcare facilities or initiate certain healthcare services, except for the initiation of services for a burn unit or organ transplantation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SJR62 Naming and Designating - Designates February 22, 2023 as "Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Awareness Day" in Tennessee.

TN - HB283 Health Care - 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 of age or older an immunization for pneumococcal disease prior to discharging the patient from the hospital. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB1333 Women - As introduced, creates the commission on African American breast cancer research; requires the commission to study breast cancer issues affecting African American women. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1297 Children - As introduced, removes an obsolete cross-reference to a statute that was repealed in 2010. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB1143 Mental Illness - 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 illness or serious emotional disturbance, while a person transported to such facility by the sheriff or agent is evaluated for admission, after which the responsibility for the person turns over to the evaluating facility. - Amends T...

TN - HB1358 Health Care - 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; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB264 Public Health - As introduced, prohibits the state or a political subdivision of the state from requiring an immunization unless exemptions are provided for persons who file signed, written statements affirming that the immunization conflicts with their religious tenets and practices; makes certain other changes related to immunizations. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 14; Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 37; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 68.

TN - HB913 Controlled Substances - As introduced, requires a practitioner to discuss with patients the addiction and overdose risks associated with certain prescription drugs, alternative treatments that may be available, and the reasons why the prescription is necessary prior to issuing an initial prescription and prior to issuing a third prescription for certain controlled substances in a course of treatment for acute or chronic pain. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HB51 Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, requires the individual that signs the death certificate of a decedent to ask whether the family or other appropriate individual wants to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part; prohibits a procurement organization from contacting the family or other appropriate individual if the family or other appropriate individual refused to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part. - Amends TCA Title 32; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB653 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires healthcare facilities and long-term care facilities to permit in-person visitation of a patient or resident by family members and community pastoral care members; allows the facilities to place limitations on the frequency and duration of visitation in certain areas and to require the visitors to comply with safety protocols. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB637 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires an employer that requires an immunization as a condition of employment or continued employment to exempt from the immunization requirement a person who files a signed, written statement that the immunization conflicts with the persons religious tenets or practices; prohibits an employer from taking adverse action against a person who files a statement of religious objection. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 14; Title 37; Title 50 and Title 68.

TN - HB370 Infectious Diseases - As introduced, requires the department of health to seek federal funding to implement programs for the prevention, testing, and treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) for residents of this state, including programs in partnership with community and nonprofit partners; requires the department to annually report to the general assembly certain information about the programs and funding. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB981 Public Health - As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the Tennessee emergency medical services board, as of July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HB242 Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, requires the individual that signs the death certificate of a decedent, or an agent of the individual, to ask whether the family or other appropriate person wants to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part; prohibits a procurement organization from contacting the family or other appropriate person if the family or other appropriate person refused to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part. - Amends TCA Title 32; Title 63 and Titl...

TN - HB2297 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, requires Part B of the Katie Beckett program to serve a minimum of 5,000 program participants. - Amends TCA Section 71-5-164.

TN - HB2366 Health Care - As introduced, changes the application requirements for international medical school graduates applying for special licenses. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB2935 Medical Occupations - As introduced, enacts the ''Medical Ethics Defense Act.'' - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2944 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, expands eligibility for the Smart Steps child care payment assistance program for parents or guardians whose income is less than 100 percent of the state median income; requires the payments to be funded by state funds. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 71.

TN - HB1606 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, adds the office of legislative budget analysis as a recipient of the joint annual report provided by the commissioners of transportation and revenue that summarizes the amount and source of all moneys received and deposited in the transportation equity fund. - Amends TCA Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB2361 Health Care - 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.

TN - HB2255 Abortion - As introduced, requires the district attorneys general conference to file a report by February 1 of each year with the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate and the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives detailing the number of reports of potential criminal abortions during the prior calendar year, the action taken by the appropriate district attorney general for each report, and the legal disposition of any case resulting from each report, if any. - A...

TN - HB2397 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, beginning on January 1, 2025, and on January 1 of each subsequent year, requires the base payment for TANF eligible families to be increased to reflect the effect of inflation based upon the percentage of change between the two preceding calendar years. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB163 Adoption - As enacted, revises the definition of abandonment for purposes of termination of parental rights to include circumstances where the parent or guardian fails to visit or support the child for a period of three consecutive months if the child is less than four years of age. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1; Title 37, Chapter 5 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2226 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Maternal Health Equity Advisory Committee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2157 Health Care - 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.

TN - HJR820 Memorials, Congress - Opposes expansion of World Health Organization's authority and supports ending U.S. government funding of the organization.

TN - HB2144 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, allows the board of pharmacy to license ambulatory surgical treatment centers engaged in the practice of pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2174 Food and Food Products - As introduced, redefines "food service establishment" to exclude an establishment whose primary business is other than food service, that incidentally makes casual, occasional food sales for two days or less while an organized temporary event is being conducted less than one-quarter mile from the establishment, for the purposes of exempting such establishments from regulation by the department of health and local governments. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Ti...

TN - HB2232 Welfare - As introduced, creates a pilot project to place a moratorium on the loss of public assistance benefits for child care workers based solely on wage increases that cause their income to exceed program eligibility limits; requires TACIR to study wages and related issues for child care workers, including the benefits cliff. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2227 Abortion - As introduced, states that the term "abortion," as defined for the offense of criminal abortion, does not include the use of contraceptives, including any device, medication, biological product, or procedure that is intended for use in the prevention of pregnancy, whether specifically intended to prevent pregnancy or for other health needs, or the disposal of embryos resulting from fertility treatments, including healthcare services, procedures, testing, medications, treatments, or...

TN - HB2222 DNA and Genetic Testing - As introduced, adds testing for variants of the Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene associated with increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease to the conditions for which the department of health must develop screening programs. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2225 Health Care - 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 process for the verification of certification to a person who demonstrates that the person has completed a doula training program that meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB578 Handgun Permits - As introduced, eliminates the application and processing fee for an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2462 Abortion - 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 1 percent or more of this state's population, rather than 2 percent or more. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB807 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to prepare one of its semiannual permitting efficiency reports containing statistics demonstrating whether the department has acted on permit applications within the time frames established by rule for the governor and general assembly by January 15, instead of February 1. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 11; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

TN - SJR202 Memorials, Public Service - Hugh Clement

TN - HB459 Education - As enacted, clarifies that public charter schools and the state board of education are prohibited from employing individuals found by the department of children's services to have committed an act of child abuse in the same manner as other educational entities; clarifies that the state board is prohibited from granting, reactivating, or restoring an educator license or temporary teaching permit for such individuals; adds the state board and public charter schools to the list of ed...

TN - SJR848 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges development of comprehensive statewide Paid Family Caregiving Policy and Program.

TN - HB2511 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, prohibits generally the sale of tobacco products to a person born on or after January 1, 2007; allows for two exceptions to the prohibition of selling tobacco products to a person born on or after January 1, 2007; prohibits the sale of tobacco products in vending machines. - Amends TCA Title 1 and Title 39.

TN - HB2816 Health Care - 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 detransition procedures; requires certain gender clinics and insurance entities to report information regarding detransition procedures to the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and...

TN - HB2600 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, prohibits a hospital from negotiating or entering into anti-competitive agreements or engaging in activity that purports to look like anti-competitive conduct with other hospitals in this state; prohibits state funds or employees from engaging in an activity that purports to look like the active supervision of anti-competitive conduct in the healthcare sector. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 13.

TN - HB2645 Vital Records - As introduced, makes various changes to the present law relative to birth certificates. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.

TN - HB2502 Health Care - 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 71.

TN - HB2544 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires a government-owned hospital or health system to submit a report to the health facilities commission disclosing certain information on administrative bonuses or salary increases and any disbursements and contractor costs on an annual basis and prior to asking for public funds or ending services; requires the health facilities commission to post reported information from government-owned hospitals or health systems on its public web...

TN - HB2318 Medical Occupations - As introduced, makes various changes to the authorized scope of practice of physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2365 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, allows members of the council on autism spectrum disorder to receive reimbursement for travel expenses. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Section 4-3-2711.

TN - HB2524 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, establishes October 9 of each year as "PANDAS Awareness Day" to promote awareness of Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome. - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - HB2907 Health Care - 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 physician's supervisee from prescribing, administering, or dispensing medication for, or otherwise treating, the physician or the physician's immediate family except for emergency situations. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39; Title 53; Title...

TN - HB2261 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, defines a home for the aged that houses three or fewer nonrelated persons as a tier 1 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities; defines a home for the aged that houses four or more nonrelated persons as a tier 2 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the health facilities commission; makes other related changes to the meaning of ...

TN - HB829 Health Care - 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.

TN - HB2351 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, creates the temporary youth mental health service program. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 49.

TN - HB2298 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, requires a hospital that employs a physician to maintain a copy of an agreement specifying restrictions on physician referral decisions in its medical records department during the course of the physician's employment. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2517 Children - As introduced, creates the "Municipalities' Access To Childcare" ("MATCH") fund that, for three years, provides local governmental entities a dollar-for-dollar state match on funding projects that will expand the number of early childhood care and education quality slots for families with children 31 months or younger, regardless of income; gives priority to local governmental entities located in counties identified as distressed or child care deserts. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7...

TN - HB2371 Vital Records - As introduced, increases from 48 hours to two business days the time by which a physician in charge of a patient who dies or a medical examiner must determine the cause of death and complete and sign a medical certification of death. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2759 Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee emergency medical services board to authorize five additional EMT/AEMT training centers operated by ambulance services licensed in this state if the board makes a specific finding that additional training centers are in the best interest of this state and approves the additional training centers by a two-thirds vote of the entire membership of the board. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - HB2535 Public Health - As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, sale, distribution, and offer for use of food packages in this state that contain intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 53 and Title 68.

TN - HB2622 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, allows the board of pharmacy to license ambulatory surgical treatment centers if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2655 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department of health to make available and require blood lead level testing for students in certain schools and certain pregnant women; requires the department to provide to persons who have high blood lead levels or lead poisoning certain services to aid with such condition; requires juvenile detention facilities that are aware of a juvenile in custody with high blood lead levels or lead poisoning to provide certain services in collaboration wit...

TN - HB2904 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, clarifies that the executive directors of the board of pharmacy and the board of nursing are employees of the department of health, under the supervision and control of the division of health related boards. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2862 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department of health to submit a report to the chair of the health committee of the house of representatives and the chair of the health and welfare committee of the senate, including, at minimum, data concerning how many anesthesiologists practice in this state, how many people are currently in anesthesiology residencies or are graduating from anesthesiology education programs in this state, and suggestions to increase the number of anesthesiolo...

TN - HB2458 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, establishes a physician assistant student loan repayment grant program to incentivize physician assistants to provide health services in health resource shortage areas. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB508 Mental Illness - 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; establishes criteria for the evaluation of proposed patients and reporting to the court by physicians and certain mental health professionals. - Amends TCA Title 33.

TN - HB1506 Abortion - As introduced, changes from 10 days to three business days after an abortion the time within which the abortion must be reported to the office of vital records by the person in charge of the institution where the abortion was performed or by the attending physician. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB67 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, increases the allowable number of beds in private for-profit and private not-for-profit intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities from 668 to 804. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - HB172 Health Care - 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.

TN - HB690 Medical Occupations - As enacted, authorizes the board of examiners in psychology to designate as a health service provider in this state, a person who has held a valid license or certificate to practice psychology in another state under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2545 Medical Occupations - As introduced, defines "hospital-based laboratory" and "hospital-based laboratory supervisor" for purposes of the Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act; provides hospital-based laboratory supervisors the authority to supervise up to four hospital-based laboratories located in rural counties; makes certain other changes relative to hospital-based laboratories. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB1272 Medical Occupations - As introduced, expands the scope of practice for physician assistants, subject to increased regulatory oversight by the board of physician assistants as part of such expanded practice. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 19, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB1447 Health Care - 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 minors sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between a minor's sex and asserted identity. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Ti...

TN - HB64 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, increases, from three to four years, the duration of Tennessee opportunity pilot programs for which temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program funds must be dedicated; extends, from 12 to 18 months, the length of time following the end of each federal fiscal year by which the department must spend all unobligated TANF program funds; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 71-5-1201; Section 71-5-1203 and Section 71-5-1204.

TN - HB1379 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to publish the annual permit fee schedule to operate an organized camp on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 70.

TN - HB1511 Welfare - As introduced, adds the government operations committees of both houses to the list of legislative committees to receive annual reports from the commission on aging and disability concerning funding sources used to support the health, safety, and welfare of older adults in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 39; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1339 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to actively seek and apply for federal grants and other available federal funds, and utilize available federal funds, for the purpose of alleviating childhood hunger. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB942 Dentists and Dentistry - As enacted, enacts the "Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63, Chapter 4 and Title 63, Chapter 5.

TN - HB521 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, creates the professional music therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of music therapy. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 11.

TN - HB85 Controlled Substances - As introduced, enacts the "Free All Cannabis for Tennesseans Act"; establishes a regulatory structure for the cultivation, processing, and retail sale of marijuana and marijuana products in this state to be administered by the department of agriculture. - 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 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1071 Health Care - 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 representative, or other person authorized by the patient the reimbursement amount that disability determination services reimburses the hospital or provider for such records pursuant to federal social security administration medical re...

TN - SJR44 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges state agencies to expand cardiovascular screening programs.

TN - HB1315 Health Care - 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 recipient if the medication is medically necessary. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1419 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare prescriber from issuing a prescription for a dual-purpose prescription medication for diabetes to a person in this state if the person does not have a diagnosis of diabetes; defines a dual-purpose prescription medication for diabetes as a prescription drug that has a listed indication for diabetes and may also be used for purposes of weight loss in persons who do not have a diagnosis of diabetes. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Titl...

TN - HB715 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes an LEA or public charter school to use TANF program funds to cover costs associated with programs that provide covered services to eligible students; requires the department to consult with the department of human services to determine which programs are eligible to be funded with TANF program funds; requires the department to publish a list of eligible programs on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB469 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, authorizes an individual licensed in another state to practice medicine to practice telehealth in this state if the patient cannot otherwise receive the services the healthcare provider will provide within this state and the healthcare provider files a limited waiver request with the appropriate licensing board that certifies that the patient needs such services and that other options for the services are unavailable in this state. - Amends TCA Title 5...

TN - HB1108 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, removes the prohibition on employment of radiologists, anesthesiologists, pathologists, and emergency physicians by hospitals and hospital affiliates. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB273 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the division of health related boards to hire a medical consultant. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1084 Abortion - As introduced, states that the term abortion, as defined for the offense of criminal abortion, does not include the use of contraceptives, including hormonal birth control, intrauterine devices, or emergency contraceptives. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB803 Medical Occupations - As enacted, expands the types of medication a certified medical assistant may administer and prepare as ordered by an authorized healthcare provider. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB1311 Medical Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Graduate Physicians Act." - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB842 Livestock - As introduced, specifies that meat may be labeled as being free of mRNA vaccine if the animals from which the meat was derived were not administered an mRNA vaccine; removes authorization for the commissioner of agriculture and the state veterinarian to order vaccination of livestock; specifies that there is no state legal requirement to vaccinate livestock. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.

TN - HB1313 Health Care - 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 nationally recognized stroke consensus measures on the treatment of individuals with confirmed stroke to the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1457 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, increases the length of notice the executive director of the board must give a person holding a current licensure registration to practice as a professional or registered nurse that the renewal fee is due, from 60 days to 65 days prior to the due date of the renewal fee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1146 Medical Occupations - As introduced, establishes the scope of practice for anesthesiologist assistants, subject to regulatory oversight by the board of medical examiners as part of such practice. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB628 Health Care - 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 Title 33; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB584 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, authorizes a hospital, or an affiliated entity of the hospital, to employ an emergency physician to treat patients at a satellite emergency department, or a physician to treat patients at a primary care clinic or urgent care clinic, which is located in this state, if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB305 Mental Illness - 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.

TN - HB315 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, revises law relative to the total number of beds in private for-profit and private not-for-profit intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/1ID). - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - HB1317 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, makes various changes to the board of pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 63, Chapter 1 and Title 63, Chapter 10, Part 3.

TN - HB777 Health Care - 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, permit's or certificate's period up to 65 days, instead of 60 days, to allow administrative processing. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 68.

TN - HB1501 Opioids - As introduced, requires a prescribing healthcare practitioner to discuss certain risks associated with a prescribed Schedule II controlled substance prior to an initial prescription and following the third prescription of the drug during a course of treatment; requires the practitioner to document the discussion of such risks in the patients medical record. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HB10 Abortion - As introduced, specifies that the offense of criminal abortion does not include an abortion that was necessary due to a medical emergency affecting the physical or mental health of the pregnant person or performed on a patient whose pregnancy was the result of rape or incest; requires the physician performing the abortion to verify that the patient reported the offense to the appropriate law enforcement agency prior to the procedure. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63 and ...

TN - HJR82 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee to establish a medical cannabis program.

TN - HB275 Public Health - As enacted, applies on a statewide basis, rather than only in Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Memphis, the distance parameter for the prohibition on needle and hypodermic syringe exchange programs being operated within 1,000 feet of a school or public park; removes the distance parameter of 2,000 feet that presently applies on a statewide basis outside those four cities; provided, however, that such a program established in Kingsport must not conduct an exchange within ...

TN - HB904 Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the board of examiners in psychology to designate as a health service provider in this state a person who has held a license to practice psychology in another state under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 11.

TN - HB1094 Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, requires a procurement organization, or such organization's designee, that contacts an individual following the death of the decedent for purposes of allowing the individual to make an anatomical gift to explain to the individual that the individual can designate the decedent's whole body or a part; the process of making an anatomical gift and the condition the decedent's body will be in after the completion of the process; and that at the completion of the p...

TN - HB709 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to obtain specific authorization from the general assembly before seeking, applying for, accepting, or renewing a waiver of work requirements established by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; prohibits the department from exercising the state's option to provide an exemption from the work requirements; requires the department to assign individuals who are subject to participation conditions to an appropriate employm...

TN - HB1 Public Health - As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minors sex. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB101 Abortion - As introduced, excludes from the offense of criminal abortion an abortion performed to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or to prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman or on a patient whose pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; permits a law enforcement officer to confirm to a physician that the pregnant woman has filed a report of alleged rape or incest. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 63 and...

TN - HB66 Health Care - 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 provided through such system. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB1429 Health Care - As enacted, enacts "Quinnlee's Law." - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB952 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, establishes regulations regarding the licensing and regulating of certain medically related facilities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HJR134 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the Bureau of TennCare to seek a Section 1115 waiver to provide housing solutions for Tennesseans in need.

TN - HJR118 Naming and Designating - Designates October 2023 as "Spina Bifida Month,"

TN - HB377 Health Care - 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.

TN - HB495 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, enacts the "Topical Medical Waste Reduction Act of 2023," which establishes certain regulations of facility-provided medications. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1388 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, terminates the radiologic imaging and radiation therapy board of examiners; authorizes the board of medical examiners, to establish and issue limited and full X-ray certifications. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1205 Health Care - 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 person with a durable power of attorney for health care, with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 6, Part 2 and Title 68.

TN - SJR148 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Reaffirms the legislature's intent to provide access to contraceptives.

TN - HB827 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the call button to each bed in a general patient area in a nursing home to be easily reachable to, and useable by, a patient. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB566 Public Health - As introduced, enacts the "Overdose Fatality Review Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1380 Public Health - As enacted, enacts the "Mature Minor Doctrine Clarification Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SJR25 Memorials, Recognition - "Color Chattanooga Pink Week," January 14-21, 2023

TN - HB1077 Food and Food Products - As enacted, creates a farmers market food unit permit for food service establishments that meet requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 53; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB498 Health Care - 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 providers practice group, or the healthcare system within 16 months prior to an interactive visit in order to establish a provider-patient relationship for purposes of telehealth; allows a physician assistant who is authorized to prescribe drugs and who provides ...

TN - HB155 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HB883 Abortion - As enacted, makes various changes relative to abortion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB514 Health Care - 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 the diagnosis for purposes of appointment to and service on the commission with a valid letter of attestation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and ...

TN - HB32 Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material unless the food labeling contains a conspicuous notification of the presence of the vaccine or vaccine material in the food. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.

TN - HB1312 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, revises the law relative to the board of medical examiners issuing a temporary license of limited duration to certain international medical school graduates. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB1440 Abortion - As introduced, exempts from the offense of criminal abortion an abortion that is performed on a patient whose pregnancy is the result of rape or incest if the abortion is performed prior to a certain gestational age; requires the physician performing the abortion to confirm that the patient reported the offense to the appropriate law enforcement agency and submitted to a forensic medical examination prior to the procedure; adds a mandatory minimum sentence of three years incarcerat...

TN - HB2522 Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the board of osteopathic examination to issue advisory private letter rulings upon request to affected licensees regarding matters within the board's primary jurisdiction; provides that such rulings only affect the licensee making the inquiry and have no precedential value for another inquiry or future contested case that might come before the board. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB1489 Education, Higher - As introduced, changes, from February 1 to January 15, the date by which each governing board must provide a report to the office of legislative budget analysis with information regarding expenditures of revenues derived from any tuition and fees increase in the previous full academic year. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB2933 Autopsies - As introduced, requires the medical examiner's office or regional forensic center to ascertain and document current psychotropic drug use, and prescription drug use from the past 10 years, by a deceased individual who died under suspicious, unusual, or unnatural circumstances, and any blood, tissue, or other tests as necessary; requires the medical examiners office to disclose the psychotropic drug use of the individual to the public, to ensure accurate vital statistics relating t...

TN - HB2421 Taxes - As introduced, permits all for-profit hospital corporations to file combined franchise and excise tax returns. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2007 and Section 67-4-2014.

TN - SJR288 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes Tennessee as a Technology First state.

TN - SJR160 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses commitment to quality rehabilitation services for persons who are blind and urges the Department of Human Services to collaborate with the National Federation of the Blind of Tennessee to develop a plan for establishing a facility that provides comprehensive on-site, facility-based vocational rehabilitation services that allow the individual who is blind to be totally immersed in the training experience.

TN - HB1639 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, provides that, if an incapacitated or deceased patient has no authorized representative, the patient's next of kin will be treated as an authorized representative for the patient for the purposes of obtaining the patient's hospital records. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1625 Mental Illness - As introduced, 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 threat of bodily harm; requires the professional or behavior analyst to report such threat; provides immunity from civil, criminal, and regulatory liability for a professional or analyst who takes reasonable action to warn or prote...

TN - HB1635 Hotels and Restaurants - As introduced, prohibits emotional support animals that are not trained, or being trained, to perform tasks or work for a person with a disability from indoor areas of food service establishments. - Amends TCA Section 6-54-135; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 44 and Title 68.

TN - HB1585 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to develop and implement, in consultation with the department of health, a public awareness campaign on mental health and gun safety; requires the department to make campaign materials available to the public for free on its website during calendar years 2024 and 2025; authorizes county health departments to develop a public awareness campaign on mental health and gun safety. - Amends TCA Title 33 and T...

TN - HB1683 Controlled Substances - As introduced, removes obsolete references to federal law that pertain to the prescription of certain controlled substances. - Amends TCA Section 53-11-311 and Section 63-1-164.

TN - HB1626 Abortion - As introduced, enacts the "Fundamental Right to Reproductive Health Care Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 37; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1678 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, transfers certain duties and authority regarding data reported by health facilities from the executive director of the health facilities commission to the department; requires licensed birthing centers to report claims data on discharges to the department at least quarterly; removes requirement that an owner of a hospital that closes must submit to the department a report of the statistical particulars relative to the hospital's patients for the fiscal year. ...

TN - HB1610 Massage Therapy - As introduced, increases from 500 to 650 the minimum number of curriculum hours that an applicant for licensure in massage must have completed at a board-approved institution for massage, bodywork, or somatic therapy in order to be eligible for licensure under the Massage Licensure Act of 1995. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 18.

TN - HB1669 Day Care - As introduced, requires a child care agency to inform parents at least 60 days before permanent closure of the child care agency; applies to parents of enrolled children who are currently enrolled at the agency and for whom tuition or attendance fees are being paid, have attended the agency within the last 90 calendar days, or are on a wait list to be enrolled at the agency. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB1679 Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, increases, from three to five, the number of dental hygienists who can work under the supervision of a licensed dentist at any one time. - Amends TCA Section 63-5-108.

TN - HB1682 Mental Illness - As introduced, adds a certificate of need for care and treatment that was completed by a licensed physician and a qualified advanced practice provider as a suitable certification for filing with a court for the purpose of a probable cause hearing on a persons need for involuntary admission to inpatient treatment, and as a prerequisite to judicial commitment. - Amends TCA Section 33-6-503 and Section 33-6-421.

TN - SJR573 Naming and Designating - Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week, May 1-7, 2023

TN - HB1701 Day Care - As introduced, requires TACIR to complete a study and issue a report on laws, regulations, and rules affecting the start up, operation, and expansion of child care businesses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2296 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, requires the board for professional counselors, marital and family therapists, and clinical pastoral therapists to license without examination a marital and family therapist applicant who is licensed in another state if the applicant's qualifications meet the licensure requirements of this state; removes the board's authorization to license an applicant by endorsement. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33 and Title 63, Chapter 22.

TN - HB2378 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a party to which the commissioner must submit an annual report on the work done by the commissioner in supervising dentists and dental equipment in the various state institutions, as well as in distributing literature throughout the state to inform the public on proper dental care. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB190 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, adds a requirement that notice of the prohibition or restriction on the possession of weapons by an individual or entity must be posted no more than three feet from each entrance; requires the notice sign to measure at least 22 inches wide and 22 inches high, have a red background and white letters, and be mounted within a certain distance from the ground. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB1729 Abortion - As introduced, specifies that the offense of criminal abortion does not include an abortion that was necessary due to a medical emergency affecting the physical or mental health of the pregnant person or performed on a patient whose pregnancy was the result of rape or incest; requires the physician performing the abortion to verify that the patient reported the offense to the appropriate law enforcement agency prior to the procedure. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63 and ...

TN - HB1710 Right to Die - As introduced, creates a process whereby an adult suffering from a terminal disease may request medication for the purpose of ending the adult's life in a humane and dignified manner if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 32; Title 39; Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - HB2866 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to conduct a study, utilizing existing resources, on the effectiveness of state programs incentivizing students to pursue careers in mental health care; requires the study to include an analysis of similar programs in contiguous states and recommendations for the general assembly on creating a successful program in this state; requires a report to the general assembly by December 31, 2024. - Amends TCA ...

TN - HB2603 Abortion - As introduced, exempts from the offense of criminal abortion an abortion that is performed or attempted by a licensed physician in a licensed hospital or ambulatory surgical treatment center on a patient who is under 13 years of age; requires the physician to confirm the patient's date of birth prior to performing or attempting to perform the abortion. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HJR778 Naming and Designating - Designates February 24 as "SCN2A Awareness Day."

TN - HB1825 Controlled Substances - As introduced, increases the limit on the amount of products containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine base, or their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers that a pharmacy may sell or a person may purchase in a 30-day period from 5.76 grams to 7.2 grams; removes the limit on the amount of such products that may be purchased or sold within a one-year period. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB1846 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to make an annual report to the governor on the total number of firearm injuries and deaths in this state per 100,000 people; requires the attorney general and reporter to assist the department, upon request, in collecting information necessary for the report. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2869 Public Health - As introduced, reduces minimum age requirement for membership on the medical cannabis commission from 30 years of age to 25 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2376 Public Health - As introduced, changes from March 1 to January 15 the date by which the bureau of TennCare must submit an annual report to the general assembly concerning aspects of quality and outcomes in perinatal care for the previous two years that includes a description of initiatives by managed care organizations to improve key performance indicators of perinatal care outcomes, and a determination of the effectiveness of managed care organizations' initiatives toward improving perinatal...

TN - HB1853 Health Care - 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 communication disorders and sciences by healthcare professionals if provided only on an outpatient basis; and therapy outpatient services provided by a person or entity under the social security act and reimbursed under medicare part B or a...

TN - HB1886 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, implements penalties for certain offenses for beneficiaries of the temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program and food stamp program; removes an exemption from the TANF work requirement; removes the requirement that the TANF maximum payment standard must not increase when a caregiver relative becomes pregnant while receiving assistance. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 3.

TN - HB2011 Health Care - 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 prohibiting healthcare entities from disclosing electronic health reports or tests to patients until 72 hours after the results have been finalized in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1863 Dieticians and Nutritionists - As introduced, enacts the "Dietitian Licensure Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1884 Abortion - As introduced, specifies that the offense of criminal abortion does not include an abortion that was necessary due to a medical emergency affecting the physical or mental health of the pregnant person or performed on a patient whose pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1962 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to utilize cost estimation models to determine the cost of day care when setting the annual day care reimbursement rate. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1916 Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, creates a process by which an individual or terminal patient can refuse to make an anatomical gift that cannot be amended by another person; requires a procurement organization to follow certain procedures for contacting a decedent's family member or other authorized person. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2007 Business and Commerce - As introduced, authorizes a tanning facility to operate either with a trained attendant on duty or a self-serving customer kiosk that allows a customer to initiate the tanning process without the service of a trained attendant; authorizes a tanning facility to remain open 24 hours a day. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB1943 Health Care - 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.

TN - HB1973 Health Care - 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 department of health to require newborn screening for conditions not listed on the RUSP; requires certain implementation and reporting requirements regarding such newborn screening. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - HB1961 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, expands eligibility for the Smart Steps child care payment assistance program for parents or guardians whose income is less than 100 percent of the state median income; requires the payments to be funded by state funds. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 71.

TN - HB1895 Abortion - As introduced, creates the criminal offense of abortion trafficking of a minor; provides for a civil action against a person committing the offense of abortion trafficking of a minor for the wrongful death of an unborn child that was aborted. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HB1883 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, creates the right of an attorney in fact designated to make healthcare decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care to conduct at least one in-person visitation with the principal for each day the principal is in a hospital; permits the hospital to require the attorney in fact to submit to non-invasive health and safety protocols; prohibits the visitation right from being terminated, suspended, waived, or otherwise limited d...

TN - HB1882 Health Care - As introduced, requires a healthcare provider to provide to a patient or the patients authorized representative a full copy of the patients medical records within 10 working days of receipt of a written request by the patient or representative, instead of providing a full copy or a summary of the records; requires a healthcare provider to provide to a principal or an attorney in fact acting pursuant to a durable power of attorney for health care a full copy of the principals med...

TN - HB1960 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, authorizes public hospitals, upon approval of the hospital's governing body, to establish a state employee and retiree healthcare incentive program that will allow for the waiver of applicable out-of-pocket expenses associated with medical care at the public hospital for state employees and retirees and their covered dependents participating in the state group insurance plan. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27.

TN - HB1862 Medical Occupations - As introduced, enacts the Physician Assistant (PA) Licensure Compact. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2004 Public Health - As introduced, requires the department of health, in conjunction with the department of environment and conservation, to investigate the frequency of diagnoses of cancer, Parkinson's disease, and other significant health-related issues in Maury County and Lawrence County. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 68, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2015 Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires the medical services board to promulgate rules to authorize medics who have completed an army, navy, or air force training program to be licensed as AEMTs upon completion of the National Registry Exam for Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians without taking an AEMT educational program. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HB1976 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the court or chief officer of a mental health facility that orders the release of a person from a mental health facility to notify the law enforcement agency that transported the person to the mental health facility of the person's release. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8 and Title 33.

TN - HB1975 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to include in the annual block grant report information detailing the department's use of federal TANF funds in furtherance of the four purposes of the TANF program. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB1922 Children - As introduced, adds certain assisted-care living facilities, nursing homes, and emergency communications centers as locations where a newborn safety device may be located. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB1971 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the department to enter into, or amend an existing, grant contract or other contract as necessary to ensure successful implementation and completion of the Tennessee opportunity pilot program. - Amends TCA Section 71-5-1203.

TN - HB1969 Day Care - As introduced, requires installation of carbon monoxide alarms in each room of a child care agency where care is provided to a child; requires the alarms to meet certain national certification standards and be installed in accordance with national fire safety recommendations or manufacturer instructions; establishes dates by which the alarms must be installed in new and existing child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120 and Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1894 Food and Food Products - As introduced, defines food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material as a drug for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.

TN - HB2060 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, increases from 50 to 100 the number of patients to whom a licensed nurse practitioner or physician assistant who is authorized to prescribe Schedule II or III drugs may prescribe buprenorphine products; increases from four to 10 the maximum number of licensed nurse practitioners or physician assistants who prescribe buprenorphine products that a physician may supervise or collaborate with at one time; makes other changes relative to the use of buprenorphin...

TN - HB2089 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Disability and Aging Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 40; Title 41; Title 45; Title 49; Title 52; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 1100 of the Public Acts of 2010.

TN - HB2156 Education - As introduced, increases, from 45 to 60, the number of days a child care person or entity may receive an extension on a temporary certificate from the state board of education to operate a child care program prior to the issuance of an initial annual certificate of approval. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR918 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges creation of state certified peer recovery program for veterans.

TN - HB2328 Health Care - 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, reimbursement from an individual or from any third party payor. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB2897 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, requires a pharmacy or other authorized dispensing person or entity to make all reasonable efforts to contact and notify a person of the lowest available cost of a prescription drug prior to the point of sale. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB2663 Health Care - 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, is required to report to the general assembly on data relating to access to care and safety net adequacy related issues. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2020 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, expands postsecondary academic programs in fermentation authorizing students to taste alcoholic beverages as part of the program. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - HB2861 Public Health - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to submit an electronic copy of the annual report on immunization rates of children, by county, to the governor and the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 14; Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 4; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB2902 Health Care - 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 practice of polysomnography. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB2664 Public Health - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to submit an electronic copy of the annual report on immunization rates of children, by county, to the governor and the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 14; Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 4; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB2291 Mental Illness - 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 director of the council resulting in requiring the department to submit a new candidate. - Amends TCA Title 33.

TN - HB1132 Veterinarians - As introduced, makes certain changes concerning establishment of a veterinarian-client-patient relationship; authorizes continuation of such relationship for up to 24 months, rather than 12 months, in case of livestock. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1156 Agriculture - As introduced, requires the department of agriculture to submit a report on the operation of the Tennessee agricultural museum by February 1 of each year, to the chair of the senate energy, agriculture and natural resources committee, the chair of the agriculture and natural resources committee of the house of representatives, and the legislative librarian. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 44.

TN - HB344 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to classify school nurses as licensed personnel for salary purposes; requires an LEA to pay a school nurse the base salary established for licensed teachers for the respective school year if the school nurse holds a valid license to practice professional nursing as a registered nurse with zero years of experience; requires an LEA to pay a school nurse more or less than the established base salary per school year if the nurse has more or ...

TN - HB2650 Health Care - 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 of each year, instead of ending December 31, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2497 Disabled Persons - As introduced, removes a report due by March 1, 2006, from the commissioner to legislative committees concerning the effectiveness of a demonstration project wherein a nursing home allowed a disabled volunteer to assume certain functions in the nursing home. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 68.

TN - HB2968 Davidson County - Subject to local approval, creates the East Bank Development Authority for the metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County.

TN - HB2359 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, updates citations to federal law that affect state regulations of quality improvement committees of healthcare organizations. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB2321 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, increases the amount of personal needs allowance from $50 to $70 for long-term nursing home residents. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB2536 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to establish by January 1, 2025, a publicly accessible website that contains information about the performance of child care agencies, including violations by the agency, injuries or deaths occurring at the agency, date of the agency's last inspection, and other relevant information. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2327 Mental Illness - As introduced, requires the department of 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 other demographics, including age, race, and ethnicity, and the method or means used of the attempted or completed suicide. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2451 Health Care - 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 Title 68.

TN - HB2269 Health Care - 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 home of its right to contest the action but also must detail the procedure for contesting the action. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - HB2555 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, creates the behavioral health crisis intervention services board to provide oversight and input on the development of an integrated behavioral health crisis care system in this state; imposes a behavioral health crisis intervention services surcharge on certain telephone services; creates the behavioral health crisis intervention services fund to receive the surcharge funds. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 7; Title 33...

TN - HB2275 Health Care - 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 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2574 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, creates a mental health professional loan repayment program to be administered by the department for mental health professionals who agree to provide mental healthcare services for at least three years in a mental health shortage area within this state and who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2317 Day Care - As introduced, requires TACIR to complete a study and issue a report on laws, regulations, and rules affecting the start-up, operation, and expansion of child care businesses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB1378 Health Care - As introduced, enacts the Youth Health Protection Act. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 14; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1095 Health Care - 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.

TN - HB737 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to allocate any temporary assistance for needy families funds remaining unexpended at the end of a fiscal year to eligible after school programs in underserved communities to allow the programs to provide nutritious meals to enrolled students. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB573 Day Care - As introduced, increases from five to seven the minimum number of children a facility must have under its care for three or more hours per day in order to fall within the definition of a child care agency for licensing purposes. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - HB779 Medical Occupations - As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners, the board of osteopathic examination, board of nursing, board of physician assistants, and board of alcohol and drug abuse counselors, when such board receives a completed application for licensure from an applicant who is licensed in another state or territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia, to, within 45 days from the date the board receives the completed application, render a decision on the app...

TN - HB575 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, requires the board of medical examiners to consider including a course in maternal mental health when establishing continuing medical educational requirements for persons licensed to practice medicine. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB380 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires certain departments to create programs to reduce gun violence in communities, including a youth employment program, violence intervention program, and a gun safety program; requires the department of health to submit an annual report to the legislature and counties and municipalities on the public health impacts of gun violence in communities. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 39.

TN - HB738 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, creates the doula services advisory committee, attached to the department for administrative purposes, to advise the department by establishing core competencies and standards for the provision of doula services in this state, and recommend reimbursement rates and fee schedules for TennCare reimbursement for doula services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB282 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, authorizes as part of the practice of pharmacy the prescribing of dietary fluoride supplements, certain immunization agents, opioid antagonists, and certain other drugs and products; makes various other changes to pharmacy practice. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 58; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB334 Medical Occupations - As introduced, removes certain limitations placed on a person trying to meet the educational requirement for licensure as a polysomnographic technologist by presenting proof of successful completion of an accredited sleep technologist educational program (A-STEP) that is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB792 Children - As introduced, enacts the "First Lady's Children's Trust Fund Act," which creates a trust fund to support persons and entities seeking assistance in the care of children in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 37; Title 50; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1404 Abortion - As introduced, reduces from seven calendar days to three business days the period within which a physician must notify the board of medical examiners after learning that the physician has been criminally charged with violating the statutory prohibition on the performance or attempted performance of an abortion upon a pregnant woman when the physician knows the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion because of the sex or race of the unborn child or because of a prenatal diagnosis, t...

TN - HB667 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, makes various changes to the prescription drug donation repository program operated by the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB647 Health Care - 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.

TN - HB1296 Birth Control - As introduced, requires the department of health to provide voluntary reversible long-acting contraception to women at no charge. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1325 Health Care - 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 information to the department for inclusion in the database. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1194 Health Care - As enacted, makes changes to law relative to the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care program. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB1441 Health Care - 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 53; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB729 Audiologists and Speech Pathologists - As enacted, clarifies the emergency medical backup requirement for speech language pathologists using endoscopes so that the procedure may be performed when a physician is on the premises or is remotely available regardless of whether the procedure is performed in a community or institutional setting. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - HB271 Health Care - 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.

TN - HB1529 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to study COVID-19 exemptions based on religion or rights of conscience in neighbor states and report findings to the health committees by January 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 14; Title 29; Title 36; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB859 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the department to disclose de-identified data that is collected from records maintained by ambulance service and invalid vehicle operators licensed or permitted by the department, including for the purpose of providing opioid overdose response and resources throughout this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 68.

TN - HB2289 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, removes a medication aide's authority, pursuant to a nursing delegation, to administer oral medications and topical medications prescribed with a designation authorizing or requiring administration on an as-needed basis; removes prohibition against a medical aide administering medications delivered by aerosol, nebulizers, or metered hand-held inhalers without a spacer. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2405 Social Workers - As introduced, enacts the Social Work Licensure Compact. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2666 Licenses - As introduced, establishes qualifications for a person to receive a professional counselor license through a reciprocal agreement that this state has entered into on or before January 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2474 Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes persons certified to operate vehicles as emergency medical responders to be employed as ambulance operators for non-emergency transport services on a part-time basis. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 58; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HB2358 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, establishes a procedure for certain specialty medications to be returned to and re-dispensed by certain approved pharmacies. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB75 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As enacted, authorizes the responding law enforcement officer or the district attorney general's office to extend criminal immunity to persons who are experiencing a subsequent drug overdose and who are seeking medical assistance. - Amends TCA Section 63-1-156.

TN - HB2690 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to issue grants, subject to appropriations, to support the installation of powered, height-adjustable, adult-sized changing tables in single occupancy family restrooms in privately and municipally owned buildings open to the public across this state; authorizes the commissioner to create and convene an ad hoc committee to advise and assist with grant applications. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part...

TN - HB2900 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, as an alternative for an applicant for certain professional licenses or certificates having to show United States citizenship or authorization to work in the United States as verified by the SAVE program, allows the applicant to show proof of application for a valid visa that would authorize the applicant to lawfully work in the United States or a valid J-1 or F-1 student visa; requires the board of medical examiners to grant a full and unrestricte...

TN - HB2720 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Healthcare Quality and Access Act of 2024"; makes various changes to certificates of need for healthcare facilities. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB2727 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, establishes the designations of psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist and enumerates the permitted activities for individuals with such designations. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2822 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to eliminate or reduce co-payment requirements for persons who are receiving child care payment assistance through programs administered by the department based on the persons' household income. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB2316 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the defined geographical limitation for purposes of exercising police power to be incorporated into an agreement relating to security provided by law enforcement officers for health and related facilities. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2002 Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates one additional circuit court in the 4th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2773 Health Care - 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.

TN - HB2065 Health Care - 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 clearly visible to residents and the public. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB2086 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires a 340B entity that receives federal grant funds through 317 or 318 of the Public Health Service Act to enter into an agreement with the department on such terms and conditions as the commissioner may require in order to be eligible to receive in-kind funds from the state or a political subdivision of the state on or after July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - HB2081 Health Care - 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 of self-administration in the individual's home; prohibits administration of certain medications by unlicensed persons. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 9.

TN - HB2122 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create a continuing education program for the purpose of providing healthcare professionals with information and training relative to public and office safety. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2233 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, expands eligibility for the Smart Steps child care payment assistance program for parents or guardians whose income is less than 100 percent of the state median income; requires the payments to be funded by state funds. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 71.

TN - HB2212 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, allows the comptroller of the treasury to investigate the operations of rural hospitals and facilitate the transfer of the ownership and operations of government-owned rural hospitals that have failed or are abandoned. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 8; Title 56; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2273 Medical Occupations - As introduced, clarifies that a person licensed to practice medicine in this state may complete the person's continuing education requirements solely through courses, approved by the board of medical examiners, that are offered online; requires the board to approve, at a minimum, a number of courses each year that allow a person the ability to complete the person's continuing education requirements online. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1918 Recreational Areas - As introduced, requires a campground owner to post in a high traffic area on the campground or distribute to registered guests or visitors a written policy on campground curfew, alcohol use, tobacco use, and pets; authorizes a campground owner to eject a person from the campground and notify the appropriate local law enforcement authorities of any person in response to certain actions by the person; classifies remaining on a campground after having been asked to leave by ...

TN - HJR855 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages Tennesseans to limit intake of high-calorie and high-fat foods.

TN - HB2334 Health Care - 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 state charged with providing services to the elderly and individuals with disabilities; requires the reports to be made accessible, at no charge, to the public on the department of health's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title ...

TN - HB2708 Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any livestock carcass, part of any livestock carcass, or meat food product that was derived or prepared from livestock that received an mRNA vaccine or vaccine material unless the product labeling contains a conspicuous notification, in a type size of not less than 10 point font, that the product was derived or prepared from livestock that received an mRNA vaccine or vaccine ...

TN - HB2647 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, removes an outdated provision that required the department to report to the chairs of the government operations committees of the senate and the house of representatives, and appear before the education, health, and general welfare joint evaluation committee, in 2023 relative to the December 2022 performance audit report issued by the division of state audit. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 37.

TN - HB1903 Contractors - As introduced, changes from a reviewed or audited financial statement prepared by a licensed public accountant or a certified public accountant to a compilation prepared by a licensed public accountant or a certified public accountant that a contractor who is seeking renewal of a license with a monetary limit exceeding $1,500,000 must submit with the renewal application. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR816 Naming and Designating - Designates January 21-27, 2024, as "Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists' Week" in Tennessee.

TN - HB2941 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As introduced, increases from 11 to 20 inches and from 17 to 30 inches the height and width requirements of signage required to be prominently displayed in a substance-free recovery residence not recognized or certified by an organization or funded by a state or federal department or agency. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 33; Title 47; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2093 Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires health-related boards that license practitioners authorized to prescribe buprenorphine-containing products to post nonresidential buprenorphine guidelines and standards on the licensing board's website no more than 10 days after receipt of the guidelines. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2539 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, urges the department of health along with the department of agriculture to study the effects of the sale and distribution of vapor products to persons under 21 and make recommendations to the legislature with regard to reducing such sale and distribution. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15.

TN - HB2433 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, authorizes the department of agriculture to submit and publish its annual report to the general assembly and the public on efforts to prevent the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 21 years of age electronically and on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 25; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 67.

TN - HB2375 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, adds legislative librarian to the list the department of mental health and substance abuse services must submit its quarterly report to on the implementation and impact of available suitable accommodations, including the number and length of any delayed admissions, in state-owned or -operated hospitals or treatment resources. - Amends TCA Title 33.

TN - HB2123 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner study laws in contiguous states concerning requirements for prescribing and dispensing medication and submit a report of findings to the chair of the health and welfare committee of the senate, the chair of the health committee of the house of representatives, and the legislative librarian on or before December 31, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 20; Title 33; Title 39; Title 47; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Titl...

TN - HB2899 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to include in its training curriculum for emergency medical services personnel materials concerning child abuse and neglect. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - HB2625 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission and each governing board of a public institution of higher education in this state to revise certain rules and take certain actions with respect to institutional accreditation; specifies that a public institution of higher education in this state may bring a civil cause of action against an accrediting agency or association in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2925 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision requiring the public utility commission to report by 2011 to the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the governor, the chair of the commerce and labor committee of the senate, and the chair of the commerce committee of the house of representatives regarding state-issued certificates of franchise authority under the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6;...