Health Care

State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 48 and Title 56, relative to health care. [SB-862] [Healthcare ] [Insurance ]
As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act." - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 56.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Pody Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 526 on 03/15/2024

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Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 53; Title 56 and Title 71, relative to healthcare services. [HB-885] [Healthcare ] [Insurance ]
As enacted, enacts the "Prior Authorization Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56 and Title 71.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Hawk Effective Date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2025 on 05/19/2023

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68 and Title 71, relative to long-term care. [HB-780] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Senior Citizens ]
As introduced, requires the accounting of long-term care expenditures for nursing facility services; home and community-based services made under the CHOICES long-term healthcare program; and employment and Community First CHOICES services under a waiver amendment to the TennCare II demonstration, provided by the bureau of TennCare to the general assembly and interested persons, to include prior fiscal year actual expenditures and projected current fiscal year expenditures no later than January 15 of each year, instead of February 1 of each year. (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Esther Helton-Haynes P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt. on 02/02/2023

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to emergency services. [SB-737] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Law Enforcement ]
As introduced, requires, by September 1, the department of health to submit a report to the chairs of the general assembly's health-related committees concerning the number of hospitals found, within the last 20 years, to have failed to provide emergency services in accordance with rules adopted by the board for licensing healthcare facilities, or failed to furnish such services to any applicant who applies for the services in case of injury or acute medical condition where the injury or condition is liable to cause death or severe injury or illness; (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. J. Adam Lowe Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Commerce And Labor Committee on 02/06/2023

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, relative to disease control and prevention. [SB-747] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Senior Citizens ]
As introduced, requires a hospital to offer immunization for influenza disease prior to discharging a patient who is 50 years of age or older from the hospital between October 1 and March 1; requires a hospital to offer an inpatient who is 65 years of age or older an immunization for pneumococcal disease prior to discharging the patient from the hospital. - Amends TCA Title 68.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ferrell Haile Recommended For Passage, Refer To Senate Calendar Committee on 03/01/2023

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 20; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to reproductive health care. [SB-762] [Healthcare ] [Reproductive Rights / Abortion ] [Public Health ]
As introduced, enacts the "Fundamental Right to Reproductive Health Care Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Raumesh Akbari Failed In Senate Judiciary Committee on 02/28/2023

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 14; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to health care. [HB-840] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ]
As introduced, removes provisions that required health-related boards affected by law relating to prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances to report to the general assembly by January 1, 2019, on issues related to the implementation of that law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Susan Lynn P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt. on 02/02/2023

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 20; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to reproductive health care. [HB-829] [Healthcare ] [Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
As introduced, enacts the "Fundamental Right to Reproductive Health Care Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. John Clemmons Failed In S/c Population Health Subcommittee Of Health Committee on 03/14/2023

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 55 and Title 68, relative to emergency medical services. [HB-777] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
As introduced, allows the submission of applications for licenses, permits, and certificates by emergency medical services personnel, and applicable fees, before the expiration date of the license, permit, or certificate to extend the license's, permit's or certificate's period up to 65 days, instead of 60 days, to allow administrative processing. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 68.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Esther Helton-Haynes Ref. To Health Committee -- Government Operations For Review on 03/07/2023

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to health care. [SB-734] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ]
As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Wellness Law." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Briggs Effective Date(s) 05/06/2024, 01/01/2025 on 05/13/2024

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State (Arizona)
Arizona Fifty-sixth Legislature - First Regular Session (2023)

Health care; 2023-2024. [SB-1527] [Healthcare ]
Health care; 2023-2024.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. John Kavanagh Governor Vetoed on 02/16/2023

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State (South Dakota)
South Dakota 2023 Regular Session

Make an appropriation for pediatric cancer research and resource projects and to declare an emergency. [HB-1187] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Children and Youth ]
Make an appropriation for pediatric cancer research and resource projects and to declare an emergency.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Erin Healy Scheduled For Hearing on 02/23/2023

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State (South Dakota)
South Dakota 2023 Regular Session

Modify practice criteria for physician assistants. [SB-175] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Modify practice criteria for physician assistants.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Rocky Blare Senate Do Pass, Failed, Yeas 14, Nays 20. S.j. 251 on 02/13/2023

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State (South Dakota)
South Dakota 2023 Regular Session

Authorize the state's participation in the interstate compact on occupational therapy licensure. [HB-1183] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Public Health ]
Authorize the state's participation in the interstate compact on occupational therapy licensure.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Linda Duba Signed By The Governor On March 27, 2023 H.j. 544 on 03/27/2023

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State (South Dakota)
South Dakota 2023 Regular Session

Prohibit certain restrictions in employment contracts. [HB-1185] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Prohibit certain restrictions in employment contracts.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Fred Deutsch Signed By The Governor On March 27, 2023 H.j. 544 on 03/27/2023

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 56 and Title 63, relative to telehealth. [SB-721] [Healthcare ] [Telecommunications ] [Mental Health ] [Data Privacy ] [Pharmaceuticals ]
As enacted, exempts a patient receiving an initial behavioral health evaluation via telehealth from the requirement that a patient have an in-person encounter with a healthcare services provider, the healthcare services provider’s practice group, or the healthcare system within 16 months prior to an interactive visit in order to establish a provider-patient relationship for purposes of telehealth; allows a physician assistant who is authorized to prescribe drugs and who provides services solely via telehealth to arrange for chart review by a collaborating (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Becky Massey Effective Date(s) 04/24/2023 on 05/03/2023

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State (Maine)
Maine 131st Legislature

An Act to Make Menstrual Products Available in Certain Schools [HB-348] [Education ] [Public Health ] [Children and Youth ]
An Act to Make Menstrual Products Available in Certain Schools

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Matthea Larsen Daughtry Carried Over, In The Same Posture, To Any Special Session Of The 131st Legislature, Pursuant To Joint Order Hp 1482. on 05/10/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63, Chapter 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5, relative to weight management. [SB-674] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Pharmaceuticals ] [Public Health ]
As introduced, permits the services authorized in a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement to include weight management services; requires the bureau of TennCare to make available, or cause to be made available, anti-obesity medication to a recipient if the medication is medically necessary. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Art Swann Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee on 04/23/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 53; Title 56 and Title 71, relative to healthcare services. [SB-666] [Healthcare ] [Insurance ]
As enacted, enacts the "Prior Authorization Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56 and Title 71.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Pody Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 395 on 05/19/2023

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Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 55 and Title 68, relative to emergency medical services. [SB-670] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
As introduced, allows the submission of applications for licenses, permits, and certificates by emergency medical services personnel, and applicable fees, before the expiration date of the license, permit, or certificate to extend the license's, permit's or certificate's period up to 65 days, instead of 60 days, to allow administrative processing. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 68.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Shane Reeves Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Health And Welfare Committee on 03/15/2023

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