| TN | SB1269 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the prohibition on the governor expanding optional enrollment in the TennCare program pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unless authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2641 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2443 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the temporary youth mental health service program. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1763 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends, from February 1, to March 1, the annual date by which the bureau of TennCare and the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities are required to issue an annual joint report to the insurance committee of the hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2476 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the governor to seek a new TennCare waiver within 180 days of the effective date of this act to provide medical assistance coverage for the same population groups and services as the Insure Tennessee proposal; clarifies that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2454 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2937 | Intro
Sine Die | 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, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0230 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2620 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0778 | Intro
Sine Die | 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; prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1961 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 precedi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2922 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2519 | Intro
Sine Die | 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;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2450 | 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] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1033 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner to submit a report by January 1, 2024, on the implementation of, and results from, the Child Nutrition and Wellness Act of 2006, to the chair of the senate health and welfare committee, the chair of the health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2231 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1839 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 14 calendar days to 14 business days, the time in which the Tennessee opioid abatement council must decline the department of mental health and substance abuse services's recommendation for a candidate to be executive di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2301 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2302 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 len...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1739 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2135 | Intro
Sine Die | 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,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2283 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2751 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 cente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2846 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1884 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2120 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2303 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the facilities that can qualify for third-party reimbursement from TennCare, a managed care plan, or third-party payor for certain services; expands the persons who can render such reimbursable services to an employed psycholog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1883 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expresses the intent that the department of finance and administration, in coordination with the departments of health and mental health and substance abuse services, give priority to efforts that facilitate the expansion of a health c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2745 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2866 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, excludes property leased by a public entity to a non-governmental entity pursuant to a lease that conveys to the non-governmental entity the exclusive right to operate the property from the definition of "public property" as that term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2510 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to publish in a publicly accessible location on its website a list of farmers market food unit permits that it issues, and to update the list not less than once per month. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 57; Title 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2747 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the ''Medical Ethics Defense Act.'' - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2718 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2395 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner to conduct a study on factors impacting child care availability for working families and submit a report of findings to the chair of the health and welfare committee of the senate, the chair of the health comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2140 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2380 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the board of pharmacy to send notice to the chairs of the government operations committees of the senate and house of representatives within 10 days of the conclusion of the triennial review of board rules regarding the oversi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2298 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a party to which the department of health must submit an annual report based on data received by a county or district health department that operates a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2292 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the date, from February 15 to February 1, that an annual report on use of medication-assisted treatment for opiate addiction is due in each year after 2024. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 5...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2425 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires, for purposes of contested case hearings and disciplinary matters, seven or more, rather than three or more, members to constitute a quorum, and the board chairperson is authorized, when it is deemed necessary, to split the bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2179 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2240 | 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] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1991 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1986 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1955 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 clea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1865 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| 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 |
