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HB 2897 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, encourages a person authorized to dispense prescription drugs, after a request to fill or renew a prescription drug and prior to the point of sale, to make reasonable efforts to notify the person for whom the prescription drug is being filled of the lowest available cost of the drug, including a generic alternative, under a prescription discount or rebate plan, program, or card, or through a different manufacturer, compounder, or supplier, that is available to the person. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.
Jan 31 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 854
May 13 2024
HB 2900 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Professions and Occupations - As enacted, revises the manner in which a state governmental entity and local health department verifies that an applicant 18 or older who applies for a public benefit is a United States citizen or lawfully present in the United States; makes revisions to the law relative to the board of medical examiners granting a full and unrestricted license to practice medicine to certain temporary licensees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68; and Chapter 211 of the Public Acts of 2023.
Jan 31 2024 Pub. Ch. 921
May 13 2024
HJR 1440 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Interns - Jayla Fitzgerald -
Apr 18 2024 Signed By Governor.
May 07 2024
HB 2903 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Opioids - As enacted, authorizes TennCare to adopt or amend a state preferred drug list (PDL) without rulemaking; requires TennCare to ensure that reimbursement is provided to a healthcare provider who provides a non-opioid treatment to a recipient under the medical assistance program; requires TennCare to ensure that a hospital that provides services to a recipient is reimbursed under the medical assistance program for medically necessary non-opioid treatment; prohibits a managed care organization or other health insurance issuer from denying coverage of a non-opioid prescription drug in favor of an opioid prescription drug when a healthcare prescriber, instead of a licensed physician, prescribes a non-opioid medication for the treatment of acute or chronic pain. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Jan 31 2024 Pub. Ch. 762
May 01 2024
HB 2902 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Health Care - As introduced, removes from code an outdated requirement that the polysomnography professional standards committee hold at least one public meeting each year during the years 2007 through 2010 to allow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.
Jan 31 2024 H. Adopted Am. (Amendment 1 - Ha0857)
Apr 24 2024
HB 1319 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Flags - As introduced, requires the United States flag and the official state flag to be displayed continuously on property owned, operated, or controlled by this state or a political subdivision of this state, including educational institutions and public school buildings; restricts the display of flags other than the United States flag and the official state flag on said property to only those periods of time for which an entity represented by the flag is meeting or performing an authorized function on the property, with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 15; Title 49 and Title 58.
Jan 31 2023 Re-Refer To S. Cal Comm
Apr 23 2024
HB 2901 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, 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.
Jan 31 2024 Pub. Ch. 725
Apr 22 2024
HB 2898 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, creates a registry of persons convicted of the criminal offense of domestic assault; requires the bureau to maintain the registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40.
Jan 31 2024 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Finance, Ways, And Means Subcommittee Of Finance, Ways, And Means Committee
Apr 17 2024
HB 2908 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to establish a program in which a person may enroll to voluntarily waive the right to purchase firearms. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Jan 31 2024 Taken Off Notice For Cal. In Civil Justice Committee
Apr 09 2024
HB 2905 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Insurance, Liability - As enacted, expands the conditions under which certain contracts between a taxpayer and tax preparation service company are not considered contracts of insurance to include circumstances when the tax preparation service company obtains a contractual liability insurance policy or posts a bond. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 1.
Jan 31 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 640
Apr 08 2024
HB 2904 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Boards and Commissions - As enacted, 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.
Jan 31 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 606
Apr 03 2024
HB 2907 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
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 63 and Title 68.
Jan 31 2024 Held On Desk.
Apr 01 2024
HB 2914 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
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.
Jan 31 2024 Taken Off Notice For Cal. In Health Committee
Mar 27 2024
HB 2899 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
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.
Jan 31 2024 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Health Subcommittee Of Health Committee
Mar 20 2024
HB 2895 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Education, Curriculum - As introduced, specifies that authorization to provide nonsectarian, nonreligious academic study of the Bible extends to public charter schools; makes various changes to the approval process and notice requirements for such courses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Jan 31 2024 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Education Instruction Subcommittee Of Education Instruction
Mar 13 2024
HB 2906 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, establishes a 72-hour waiting period before a health benefit plan may require, as a condition of further coverage, that a provider promptly contact the health insurer for prior authorization for continuing treatment and other care for an enrollee. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To S/C Insurance Subcommittee
Feb 07 2024
HB 2896 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Cooperatives - As introduced, authorizes a cooperative that services Stewart, Cheatham, Robertson, Sumner, and Montgomery counties to provide broadband service within the jurisdictional limits of Springfield. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To S/C Business & Utilities Subcommittee
Feb 07 2024
HB 7098 (113th First Extraordinary Session (August 2023))
Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to establish the Tennessee voluntary do not sell firearms list to prohibit the possession, transportation, and sale of firearms to any person who is voluntarily admitted to a public or private hospital or treatment resource for diagnosis, observation, and treatment of a mental illness or serious emotional disturbance and voluntarily registers to be enrolled to the list. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Aug 18 2023 Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee
Aug 22 2023
SB 7026 (113th First Extraordinary Session (August 2023))
Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to establish the Tennessee voluntary do not sell firearms list to prohibit the possession, transportation, and sale of firearms to any person who is voluntarily admitted to a public or private hospital or treatment resource for diagnosis, observation, and treatment of a mental illness or serious emotional disturbance and voluntarily registers to be enrolled to the list. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Aug 18 2023 P2c, Ref. To Civil Justice Committee -- Government Operations For Review
Aug 22 2023
HB 1538 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Robertson County - Subject to local approval, increases from $500 to $525 the monthly compensation of the Robertson County highway commissioners and chairman of the commission. - Amends Chapter 380 of the Private Acts of 1947; as amended.
Feb 08 2023 Pr. Ch. 26
May 24 2023

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