| TN | SB1727 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, enacts the Physician Assistant (PA) Licensure Compact. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB2136 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, makes various changes to the authorized scope of practice of physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB2230 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, defines "hospital-based laboratory" and "hospital-based laboratory supervisor" for purposes of the Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act; provides hospital-based laboratory supervisors the authority to supervise up to four hospital-based la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB0468 | Pass | As enacted, removes certain limitations placed on a person trying to meet the educational requirement for licensure as a polysomnographic technologist by presenting proof of successful completion of an accredited sleep technologist educational progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 736 |
| TN | SB2246 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires health-related boards that license practitioners authorized to prescribe buprenorphine-containing products to post nonresidential buprenorphine guidelines and standards on the licensing board's website no more than 10 days aft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2282 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of health to reimburse an applicant's first attempt fee for taking the NREMT examination, a condition for an initial EMT or paramedic license to be issued, so long as the applicant has current or pending employm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2590 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the board of osteopathic examination to issue advisory private letter rulings upon request to affected licensees regarding matters within the board's primary jurisdiction; provides that such rulings only affect the licensee mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB2283 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 | SB2803 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB0453 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes the scope of practice for anesthesiologist assistants, subject to regulatory oversight by the board of medical examiners as part of such practice. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2747 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB1991 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB1774 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0296 | Pass | As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners, the board of osteopathic examination, board of nursing, board of physician assistants, and board of alcohol and drug abuse counselors, when such board receives a completed application for licensure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0937 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Graduate Physicians Act." - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023, 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB0953 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the board of examiners in psychology to designate as a health service provider in this state, a person who has held a valid license or certificate to practice psychology in another state under certain conditions. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Effective date(s) 04/17/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0679 | Pass | As enacted, expands the types of medication a certified medical assistant may administer and prepare as ordered by an authorized healthcare provider. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 03/31/2023 |
| TN | SB1171 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB1428 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0804 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0735 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0455 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the University of Tennessee and East Tennessee State University to annually submit a report to the education and health committees of the general assembly that includes the number of students who graduated from the respective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0581 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from three years to two years, the period a seller must keep on file a signed acknowledgement from a buyer that discloses that the seller is neither a licensed practitioner of the healing arts nor meets the criteria that would ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0187 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Maternal and Infant Mortality Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
