Tennessee Senate Bill 2937 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 1 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-03-27 - Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health & Welfare Committee
Pending: Senate Health and Welfare Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

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 examiner’s office to disclose the psychotropic drug use of the individual to the public, to ensure accurate vital statistics relating to homicides and suicides. - Amends TCA Title 38.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38, relative to investigations of certain events.

Sen. Rusty Crowe [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-27	Senate	Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health & Welfare Committee
2024-03-20	Senate	Reset on Final calendar of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
2024-03-13	Senate	Placed on Senate Health and Welfare Committee calendar for 3/19/2024
2024-02-05	Senate	Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
2024-02-01	Senate	Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
2024-02-01	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB2933 (Crossfiled) 2024-03-27 - Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB2937&ga=113
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/SB2937.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Fiscal/HB2933.pdf