Roll Call: TN SB2928 | 2009-2010 | 106th General Assembly
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Bill Title: As enacted, authorizes treating physicians of patients being treated under workers' compensation law to refer such patients for pain management; establishes a presumption that a patient who is beyond the expected period of healing but who is referred to pain management to be at maximum medical improvement for workers' compensation purposes upon the earlier of the date that the treating physician determines the patient to be at maximum medical improvement or 104 weeks after the commencement of pain management.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-05-28 - Pub. Ch. 920 [SB2928 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]
Bill Title: As enacted, authorizes treating physicians of patients being treated under workers' compensation law to refer such patients for pain management; establishes a presumption that a patient who is beyond the expected period of healing but who is referred to pain management to be at maximum medical improvement for workers' compensation purposes upon the earlier of the date that the treating physician determines the patient to be at maximum medical improvement or 104 weeks after the commencement of pain management.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-05-28 - Pub. Ch. 920 [SB2928 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]
Vote: FLOOR VOTE: THIRD CONSIDERATION AMENDED
| Vote | Tally | Democrat | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yea | 31 | 14 | 17 |
| Nay | - | - | - |
| Not Voting | - | - | - |
| Absent | - | - | - |
| TOTAL | 31 | 14 | 17 |
