| TN | SB1774 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 Me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1786 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1816 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1794 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes reference to an outdated address for the National Society of Genetic Counselors, at which a copy of the code of ethics may be obtained and, instead, refers to the address listed on the website. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1653 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of mental health to produce an annual report on suicide, including the number of completed and attempted suicides statewide, as well as broken down by county and means, and other demographics, including age, rac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0282 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes provisions related to a report regarding the status of the development of a plan for a statewide system of care for children's mental health due by February 1, 2009, and plans regarding implementation of the system of children'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0431 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1161 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0290 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0307 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0162 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 15 to 20 the number of days before the health facilities commission meeting at which an application for a certificate of need is originally scheduled that a healthcare institution wishing to oppose the application must f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1393 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a hospital or healthcare provider to charge, in response to a request for copies of records for an individual to appeal a denial of social security disability insurance or supplemental security income, a patient, patient rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0327 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that protocols developed using evidence-based medicine and authorized by the bureau be made available to TennCare providers and managed care organizations on the bureau's website; requires updates or revisions to such protoco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1414 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the bureau to establish a temporary TennCare benefits program to provide medical assistance on a temporary basis to certain individuals who do not qualify for enrollment in TennCare, CoverKids, or a successor program; requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1171 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0325 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of health to develop a database consisting of information related to uterine fibroids; requires healthcare providers who treat women with uterine fibroids to submit certain demographic and other relevant informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0733 | Intro
Sine Die | 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; require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1278 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1079 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes an obsolete cross-reference to a statute that was repealed in 2010. - Amends TCA Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1361 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse in-network dental services providers for a dental service provided to a TennCare recipient at a rate that is no less than the amount identified as the national median fee for that dental service accordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1405 | Intro
Sine Die | 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; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0912 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes provisions that required health-related boards affected by law relating to prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances to report to the general assembly by January 1, 2019, on issues related to the implementation of tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1428 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a person who is licensed to practice a healing art; who was an officer in the commissioned medical corps of the army, the navy, the air force or the public health service of the United States; and who was subsequently discharg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0911 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends certain COVID protections for healthcare providers. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159, and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1363 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the bureau to ensure that providers of adult day care services are reimbursed based upon the amount of services that are authorized on behalf of the eligible adult, and without regard for the eligible adult's attendance or abs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0670 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows the submission of applications for licenses, permits, and certificates by emergency medical services personnel, and applicable fees, before the expiration date of the license, permit, or certificate to extend the license's, perm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0541 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1148 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, makes various provisions regarding COVID-19 permanent. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29; Title 38; Title 49; Title 50; Title 63; Title 68 and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0369 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0381 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the termination provision for the title addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, which would have terminated July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29; Title 38; Title 49; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0140 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the number of days a heathcare provider has to furnish a patient's medical records to a patient from 10 to 20 working days from the date of the patient's request. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0299 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0974 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1469 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that prescribing hormone treatment for minors is not a standard medical practice when the treatment is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | HJR0321 | Engross
Sine Die | Disability Advocacy Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1020 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0128 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the bureau to establish a pilot program during the 2024-2025 fiscal year to provide payment for doula care services for pregnant women enrolled in the TennCare program who meet certain criteria; authorizes the director to seek...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1114 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0985 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, lessens from 30 to 15 days of any change, the time within which an enrollee in, and applicant for, TennCare uninsured or uninsurable coverage must notify the bureau of TennCare by mailing documentation of a material change affecting in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1315 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse air-based ambulance service providers, along with ground-based ambulance service providers, at a rate of no less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0761 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes obsolete provision requiring the commissioner, in consultation with the perinatal advisory committee, to deliver a report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0997 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the annual report of the department of mental health and substance abuse services regarding its use of funds to provide treatment services to individuals with gambling disorders in this state to be filed and published on Janua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0896 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires each county to submit its annual plan of expenditures of state grant-in-aid funds from the department of health by January 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0804 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1093 | Intro
Sine Die | 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. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0735 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Graduate Physicians Act." - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0690 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner, or the commissioner's designee, to provide the annual report on the pharmacy benefits manager's compliance with any state pharmacy benefits management contract to the chairs of the commerce and labor committe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0696 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes provisions that required the department of health to provide reviewed recommendations, previously developed to protect nursing home residents from vendors and others who would seek to provide inappropriate or unneeded goods and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0099 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
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