Bill Tracker
Federal and state legislation: who sponsored it, how every member voted, where it stands, and what the Constitution says about it.
185 bills on Health care
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
HB 717 · Health Care - As enacted, extends the termination date for the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care pilot program from December 31, 2025, to December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 52; Title 67 and Title 68.
May 21, 2025: Pub. Ch. 497
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
HB 979 · Health Care - As enacted, establishes licensure of anesthesiologist assistants; revises provisions authorizing hospitals to employ certain licensed physicians for certain medical services. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.
May 21, 2025: Pub. Ch. 509
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 1241 · Child Abuse - As enacted, expands the definition of child abuse to include a person under the age of 18 witnessing either the abuse of another child in the person's immediate family or household or domestic abuse of a member of the person's immediate family or household; specifies that reunification between a parent and a child placed in foster care due to abuse must not occur unless the parent has complied with the parent's statement of responsibilities in the permanency plan and the child has received mental health counseling. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39.
May 5, 2025: Pub. Ch. 398
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 1414 · Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises present law relative to 340B entities. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 56.
May 5, 2025: Pub. Ch. 404
- TennesseePassed both chambers114th General Assembly
SB 1389 · TennCare - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider who participates in the TennCare or CoverKids programs from refusing to provide healthcare services to an enrollee based solely upon the enrollee’s refusal to obtain a vaccine or immunization; prohibits the bureau from reimbursing a healthcare provider in violation of such prohibition; requires the director to adopt rules. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Apr 21, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 940 · Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, expands the immunity from prosecution when seeking medical assistance for a person experiencing, or believed to be experiencing, an overdose to include alcohol-related offenses; clarifies that overdose includes both drugs and alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 63.
Apr 21, 2025: Pub. Ch. 231
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 113 · Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, requires an agreement or contract entered into between the commissioner and a county health department for the department to implement subsurface sewage disposal requirements to include authority for the commissioner to issue a variance in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 4.
Apr 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 208
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 437 · Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises certain protocols for mental health and substance abuse services. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.
Apr 11, 2025: Pub. Ch. 168
- FederalIn committee119th Congress
H.R. 2762 · Expanding Access to Family Planning Act
Apr 9, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 1242 · Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises present law relative to 340B entities. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 56.
Apr 9, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 404
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
HB 502 · TennCare - As enacted, authorizes the bureau to provide coverage and treatment on behalf of an enrollee for the diagnosis, including genetic testing, and treatment of Kleefstra syndrome in the same manner and to the same extent that the bureau provides coverage for autism spectrum disorder, Trisomy 21 or Down syndrome, and other similar or related genetic disorders, when determined to be medically necessary. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.
Apr 3, 2025: Pub. Ch. 145
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 1244 · Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, removes the aggregate penalty limits for violations of law concerning pharmacy benefits managers; provides that a pharmacy benefits manager regulated under law relative to pharmacy benefits managers is subject to the insurance laws relative to timely reimbursement of health insurance claims and its requirements for timing of payments to pharmacists; provides that a violation of the prompt pay standards is governed by the penalties set out in insurance laws relative to timely reimbursement of health insurance claims. - Amends TCA Title 56.
Mar 19, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 446
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 869 · Health Care - As enacted, revises present law relative to a patient's electronic health record and requires a health insurance entity to establish and maintain a provider access API and a prior authorization API; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
Mar 19, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 447
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 995 · Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, expands the immunity from prosecution when seeking medical assistance for a person experiencing, or believed to be experiencing, an overdose to include alcohol-related offenses; clarifies that overdose includes both drugs and alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 63.
Mar 19, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 231
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
SB 401 · TennCare - As introduced, requires, on and after July 1, 2026, a minor who is enrolled in TennCare medicaid or the CoverKids program to remain eligible for such program until the minor reaches 18; prohibits the division of TennCare from subjecting the minor to a redetermination of eligibility or disenrollment, except under certain circumstances; requires the director of TennCare to submit any necessary federal waiver request by December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 71.
Mar 5, 2025: Failed in Senate Health and Welfare Committee
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 1074 · Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, removes the requirement that a provider notify a patient of communication between the provider and a health insurance entity or healthcare facility concerning additional information needed to process a prior authorization request for the patient; removes the requirement that an utilization review agent notify the enrollee and the provider or healthcare facility when additional information is needed from the enrollee, provider, or healthcare facility to make a determination on the request for prior authorization. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63, Chapter 1.
Feb 26, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 125
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
SB 1376 · Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an out-of-network ambulance service provider from balance billing an enrollee in a health benefit plan for emergency ambulance services; establishes allowable billable costs for such services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 68, Chapter 140.
Feb 12, 2025: Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
SB 428 · Opioids - As enacted, authorizes an insurer, for purposes of group insurance plans offered to state employees, to adopt or amend a state preferred drug list (PDL); requires the insurer to ensure that a non-opioid drug approved by the U.S. food and drug administration for the treatment or management of pain is not disadvantaged or discouraged with respect to coverage relative to an opioid or narcotic drug for the treatment or management of pain on the PDL. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Feb 12, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 278
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
SB 436 · Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, adds mandating the use of biosimilar drugs as a cost-saving measure the bureau of TennCare may implement; adds that a health carrier, health benefit plan, or utilization review organization may require a patient to try a biosimilar product prior to providing coverage for the equivalent branded prescription drug; requires the TennCare pharmacy advisory committee to consider as a factor the use of biosimilar drugs in the committee's recommendation to the bureau of TennCare on any drugs to be added to the state preferred drug list. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
Feb 12, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 206
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
SB 474 · Medical Occupations - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider from inquiring as to a patient's ownership, possession of, or access to firearm ammunition or firearm accessories; subjects the healthcare provider to disciplinary action and a fine of $1,000 if the healthcare provider makes such inquires. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
Feb 12, 2025: Failed in Senate Health and Welfare Committee
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