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As enacted, creates the Class C felony of performing or inducing, or attempting to perform or induce, an abortion upon a pregnant woman whose unborn child has a fetal heartbeat; creates other criminal offenses related to the performance of an abortion; requires that certain information regarding reversing chemical abortions be provided; revises and enacts other abortion-related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 37-10-304 and Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2.
As enacted, makes various changes to state law to reflect the change in federal law that raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-113; Title 39, Chapter 15 and Title 39, Chapter 17.
As enacted, increases, from biennially to annually, the reporting required by the Tennessee maternal mortality review and prevention team to the governor and the general assembly concerning the team's activities and its recommendations for changes to any law, rule, or policy that would promote the safety and well-being of women and prevention of maternal deaths. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 6.
As introduced, authorizes a “Parents' Day Out” or similar program operated by a religious institution or organization to provide 12-hour per week child care services in whatever block of time desired; requires the department of human services to create a $10 million fund to provide unlicensed care providers in rural counties with assistance in making facility upgrades for licensure; allows care providers in rural counties to provide child care for up to 10 children without being licensed if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.
As introduced, creates the Tennessee Child Care Task Force. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 49 and Title 71.
As introduced, grants discretion to the state registrar to issue a delayed birth certificate upon finding a preponderance of the evidence weighs in favor of an applicant; permits the state registrar to consider documentation such as obituaries and birth or death certificates of the applicant's parents or siblings, property tax records, and certain other documentary evidence that may support the applicant's claimed place of birth. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10 and Title 68, Chapter 3.
As introduced, deletes statutory language regarding expired requirement for quarterly status reports to the health committees of the general assembly concerning the implementation of a program of suspicion-based drug testing for applicants to TANF. - Amends TCA Title 71.
As introduced, requires a records custodian to ensure that the public disclosure of any report of the county medical examiner, toxicological report, or autopsy report complies with HIPAA in accordance with guidance developed by the department of health by rule, unless the document is subject to a subpoena or court order to the contrary. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38, Chapter 7; Title 50, Chapter 6; Title 63 and Title 68.
As introduced, requires any facility in which more than 50 abortions were performed during the previous calendar year to post a sign informing patients that a chemical abortion may be reversed following the first dose of a two-dose treatment; requires a patient to receive similar notice prior to and after having the first dose of a chemical abortion; provides criminal penalties and civil actions for any violation of the act. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 63 and Title 68.
As introduced, changes the date, from March 1 to March 15, by which the fiscal review committee staff must provide the general assembly's finance, ways and means committees information regarding state programs that have suffered reductions of federal financial support in the amount of 10 percent or more during the preceding year. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 9; Title 12, Chapter 4; Title 13; Title 41; Title 42; Title 49; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 71.
As introduced, requires the department to make available on its public website access to the most recently published Vaccine Excipient Summary from the federal centers for disease control; requires that if the department maintains a section of its public website relevant to immunization requirements, then the access to the summary must appear in that section and with the same font type, size, and style as other immunization requirement information. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
As introduced, enacts the "Rule of Law Life Act." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 63 and Chapter 351 of the Public Acts of 2019.
As introduced, extends the date by which the commission on aging and disability must provide to the general assembly an updated report and analysis on the waiting list for the state options program from January 15 of each year to January 20 of each year. - Amends TCA Section 71-2-105.
As introduced, requires the department of health to distribute to the local health departments throughout this state rabies vaccines for human patients afflicted by injuries sustained by animals in a manner proportional to the populations served by those local health departments. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 63 and Title 68.
As introduced, revises the provisions governing the department's mandatory child care agency report card system and its separate and voluntary child care agency rated licensing system and implements a quality assessment and rating system for the purpose of evaluating licensed and approved child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 3.
As introduced, replaces an obsolete reference to the insurance and banking committee of the house of representatives with a reference to the insurance committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 16; Title 24; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 68 and Title 71.
As introduced, allows a once-yearly bonus subsidy payment to participating child care agencies with a three-star quality rating that accept the department's child care assistance subsidy payment. - Amends TCA Title 71.
As introduced, increases from six to seven hours, the training required in medication administration from a registered nurse for those unlicensed persons employed by licensed agencies to assist children and youth with the self-administration of medication in a group home setting without being subject to nursing licensure and other nursing requirements. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
As introduced, requires that signage concerning minimum age to purchase tobacco products that is posted or replaced by retailers on or after July 1, 2020, must also specify that the age restriction applies to sales of vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39.
As introduced, allows the recipient of an organ transplant and referral hospital to examine all genetic records of the donor or prospective donor unless prohibited by any other law. - Amends TCA Title 68.
As introduced, increases age of persons allowed to use tobacco and smoking hemp products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age; requires licensure for the retail sale of tobacco products; levies a tax on electronic smoking device cartridges. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 43; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10 and Title 68.
As introduced, directs the commissioner to develop a plan for ensuring that 90 percent of pregnant women in this state have access to prenatal care and to report findings to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate by February 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
As introduced, subject to appropriation, requires the department to double, by January 1, 2021, the standard amount of cash assistance awarded, as of that date, to recipients who qualify for childcare assistance from programs administered by the department; prohibits spending restrictions on the increase in cash assistance, over the standard amount determined as of January 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.
As introduced, prohibits certain healthcare providers and entities from discriminating against qualified persons for receipt of transplantations or anatomical gifts based solely on disability; prohibits insurers that offer plans covering transplantations from denying coverage solely on disability. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
As introduced, enacts the Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases compact. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
As introduced, adds requirements to the spending, dedicating, or reserve of certain funds from the temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program by the department of human services and the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 68 and Title 71.
As introduced, enacts the "Healthy Food Financing Act." - Amends TCA Title 4.
As enacted, creates the Tennessee rare disease advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
As introduced, requires the department to create a phone app for citizens to search and apply for programs that use TANF funds. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 33; Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Urges federal government to address internet safety.
As enacted, adds representatives of the Tennessee commission on aging and disability, the Tennessee Nurses Association, and the department of mental health and substance abuse services as members of the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 2, Part 1.
As introduced, requires the department to submit, on or before December 1 of each year, a report to members of finance, ways and means committees summarizing amounts of federal block grants and purposes for which funds were expended, including any unexpended or returned portions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 71.
As introduced, prohibits a procurement organization from procuring a body, or any part of a body, that a medical examiner is required by law to inspect until the medical examiner inspects the body and provides the procurement organization with written documentation that the inspection is complete. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 11; Title 38 and Title 68.
As introduced, includes vapor products and e-cigarettes in the statutory definition of "tobacco products"; levies, in a manner the same as cigarettes, a tax on liquid nicotine for vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 47; Title 67 and Title 68.
As introduced, requires that the body or remains of any dead human subject to an autopsy or pathology examination be held for 14 days, unless otherwise ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, if notice is received from the district attorney general or a law enforcement agency that the next of kin may be under investigation in connection with the death of the human subject to autopsy or pathology examination. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 5 and Title 38, Chapter 7.
As introduced, corrects a reference to the insurance and banking committee of the house of representatives by replacing it with a reference to the insurance committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 71.
As enacted, enacts the "Chronic Disease Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Billing Clarity Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
As enacted, revises provisions governing the process to be followed when the next of kin disagrees with a finding that the suspected or determined manner of death was suicide. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38, Chapter 7 and Title 68.
As enacted, replaces references to hearing impairment with language referring to being deaf or hard of hearing. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 24; Title 37; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 60; Title 65 and Title 71.
As enacted, creates the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 14 and Title 71.
As enacted, enacts the "Human Life Protection Act," which bans abortion in this state effective on the 30th day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade or an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to allow states to prohibit abortion; creates exception for situations where the abortion is necessary to prevent the death of pregnant woman or prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of major bodily function; prohibits prosecution of a woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-5116; Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 9; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5.
As enacted, requires the department to include data related to complications of induced abortions, including the number of complications and the types of complications, in its annual report of selected induced termination of pregnancy data. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
As enacted, expands the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco and Vapor Products Act and other laws concerning juveniles' access to tobacco and vaping products to apply to hemp for smoking. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Section 68-1-132.
As enacted, adds neonatal care as a component of the department of health's plan for perinatal care; adds a reporting requirement for the Bureau of TennCare. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 8.
Declares that prior authorization requirements from insurance providers should be removed when a healthcare professional provides or seeks to provide medication assisted treatment to a patient with a substance use disorder and declares substance use disorder and opioid use disorder should be insured in the same manner as other diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
As enacted, limits the places in which one may use vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 16.
As enacted, authorizes the development and use of a commemorative certificate of nonviable birth. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
As introduced, increases by $500 the minimum fine imposed for a first or second violation of the requirement that a physician who reports suspected sexual abuse due to being requested to perform an abortion on a minor include in that report information regarding the sampling and preservation of embryonic or fetal tissue; increased fine amounts will be $1,000 and $1,500 respectively. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-5116; Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 9; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 68 and Section 71-5-157.
As introduced, requires the department to submit a state anti-poverty plan by January 15 every odd-numbered year beginning in 2021. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.
As introduced, increases the age to access or use tobacco and vapor products from 18 to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39.
As enacted, creates the elder abuse task force. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 71 and Chapter 961 of the Public Acts of 2014.
As introduced, enacts the "Life Appropriation Act." - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 51; Title 67 and Title 68.
Supports the health of unborn children.
As introduced, requires the department to gather certain data regarding asthma morbidity, causal factors, and services; assess patterns of medical care and population-based health services; develop and maintain measures to track and report asthma development and treatment rates; report to relevant legislative committees and on its website asthma development and treatment rates; and guide the development of public health programs and asthma policy. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.
As introduced, increases the time in which a court must notify the state registrar that a challenge to the denial of a delayed certificate of birth is filed from 21 days from filing of the challenge to 30 days. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.
As introduced, requires the board of pharmacy to review its rules regarding the board's oversight of facilities that manufacture, warehouse, and distribute medical devices every two years instead of every three years. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
As introduced, raises the minimum age from 18 to 21 to purchase any tobacco or vapor products; creates a Class C misdemeanor of selling or distributing flavored electronic cigarettes; increases the tax rate on cigarettes by 1.25 cents per cigarette. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-113; Title 39 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10.
As introduced, authorizes a tattoo artist to perform tattoo removal if the tattoo artist complies with the applicable rules promulgated by the commissioner of health. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 38, Part 2.
As introduced, enacts the "Child Support Cooperation Act," which directs the department to require each recipient of SNAP (food stamp) benefits to cooperate with the Title IV-D child support enforcement program as a condition of eligibility for SNAP benefits. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
As introduced, increases age of persons allowed to use tobacco and vapor products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 43 and Title 68.
As introduced, prohibits abortions from the point a fetal heartbeat is detected; creates exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
As introduced, removes the authority to order an autopsy from the county medical examiner; authorizes the district attorney general to order an autopsy in certain circumstances; authorizes the chief medical examiner to order an autopsy if the district attorney general fails to act. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7.