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Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Assigned to Subcommittee Professional Occupations of HHR Bill TextCompanion Bill SB1163. Nurses, Nursing - Certifies medication technicians who can administer certain medications in nursing homes under the supervision of licensed nurses. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *HB0631 / SB1163 Increase State Expenditures - $336,500 Recurring $31,200 One-Time Increase State Revenues - $367,700 Bill Summary for *HB0631 / SB1163 This bill establishes procedures for the certification of persons to administer medication to nursing home residents. This bill authorizes nursing homes to use certified medication technicians to administer medications to residents. An individual seeking certification as a medication technician must apply to the board of nursing and submit a fee to be established by the board. To be eligible to receive a medication technician certificate,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/21/2007 - Assigned to Subcommittee Civil Practice and Procedure of JUD Bill TextCompanion Bill SB0104. Nurses, Nursing - Limits liability under certain conditions for nurses who perform voluntary service in free clinics. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for HB0967 / *SB0104MINIMAL Bill Summary for HB0967 / *SB0104 This bill provides immunity from civil liability to nurses while performing voluntary, free services in free clinics. The immunity would not apply to acts of gross negligence or willful misconduct or if the service at the clinic is part of the person's required nursing training. Under present law, physicians have the same type of immunity for medical services performed on a voluntary, free basis in free clinics as this bill provides to nurses.
Latest Action: 02/27/2007 - Assigned to Subcommittee Professional Occupations of HHR Bill TextCompanion Bill SB1411. Nurses, Nursing - Exempts certain online nursing diploma programs from nursing school accreditation requirements. - Amends TCA Section 63-7-117. Fiscal Summary for HB1526 / *SB1411 MINIMAL Bill Summary for HB1526 / *SB1411 Under present law, an institution desiring to conduct a school of professional nursing, or a school of practical nursing, on ground, distance, online or via other electronic means, must apply to the board of nursing for approval, and submit evidence that it is prepared to: (1) Carry out the prescribed basic professional nursing curriculum, or the prescribed curriculum for practical nursing, as the case may be; and (2) Meet other standards established by general law or by the board. This bill exempts from the above provisions any online nursing diploma program in existence before [...] show full description
Latest Action: 07/12/2007 - Public Chapter 530 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB2040. Nurses, Nursing - Enacts the "Tennessee Nurse Home Visitor Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. Fiscal Summary for *HB1892 / SB2040(Corrected) Increase State Expenditures - $345,000 Recurring $45,000 One-Time Bill Summary for *HB1892 / SB2040 This bill establishes a nurse home visitor program whereby a nurse would provide regular, in-home visiting nurse services to low-income, first-time mothers during pregnancy and through the child's second birthday. The nurse would educate the mothers on the importance of nutrition and avoidance of drugs and alcohol and would assist and educate the mothers in providing general care for their children. The nurse may also assist the mothers in locating assistance with educational achievement and employment. The program would [...] show full description
Latest Action: 06/05/2007 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in: Study Committee Sub-committee of Budget Bill TextNurses, Nursing - Requires the board of nursing to report to the house health and human resources committee and the senate general welfare, health and human resources committee by January 15, 2008, concerning practice settings of Tennessee nurses; the report shall detail traditional and non-traditional practice settings and professional issues raised by such settings. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68. Fiscal Summary for HB1972 / *SB1960Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase State Revenues - Not Significant
Latest Action: 06/19/2007 - Public Chapter 399 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB0837. Nurses, Nursing - Removes requirement that persons who perform personal support services have eight hours training from a licensed, registered nurse in order to assist with administering medication; specifies type of assistance that may be provided. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 2; Title 63, Chapter 7 and Title 68, Chapter 11. Fiscal Summary for HB2087 / *SB0837State Expenditures - Net Impact - Not Significant Bill Summary for HB2087 / *SB0837 Present law authorizes any person who is employed by an agency licensed to provide personal support services to clients who have mental health or developmental disabilities and who live in their own home or private residence to assist the client with medication administration, except for injections, upon a written waiver of liability by the client or the client's authorized representative,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/06/2007 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of: Senate Jud Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB0967. Nurses, Nursing - Limits liability under certain conditions for nurses who perform voluntary service in free clinics. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *SB0104 / HB0967MINIMAL Bill Summary for *SB0104 / HB0967 This bill provides immunity from civil liability to nurses while performing voluntary, free services in free clinics. The immunity would not apply to acts of gross negligence or willful misconduct or if the service at the clinic is part of the person's required nursing training. Under present law, physicians have the same type of immunity for medical services performed on a voluntary, free basis in free clinics as this bill provides to nurses.
Latest Action: 06/19/2007 - Companion became Public Chapter 399 Bill TextCompanion Bill HB2087. Nurses, Nursing - Removes requirement that persons who perform personal support services have eight hours training from a licensed, registered nurse in order to assist with administering medication; specifies type of assistance that may be provided. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 2; Title 63, Chapter 7 and Title 68, Chapter 11. Fiscal Summary for *SB0837 / HB2087State Expenditures - Net Impact - Not Significant Bill Summary for *SB0837 / HB2087 Present law authorizes any person who is employed by an agency licensed to provide personal support services to clients who have mental health or developmental disabilities and who live in their own home or private residence to assist the client with medication administration, except for injections, upon a written waiver of liability by the client or the client's authorized representative,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate GW,H&House Resolution Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB0631. Nurses, Nursing - Certifies medication technicians who can administer certain medications in nursing homes under the supervision of licensed nurses. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for SB1163 / *HB0631 Increase State Expenditures - $336,500 Recurring $31,200 One-Time Increase State Revenues - $367,700 Bill Summary for SB1163 / *HB0631 This bill establishes procedures for the certification of persons to administer medication to nursing home residents. This bill authorizes nursing homes to use certified medication technicians to administer medications to residents. An individual seeking certification as a medication technician must apply to the board of nursing and submit a fee to be established by the board. To be eligible to receive a medication technician certificate,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate GW,H&House Resolution Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB1526. Nurses, Nursing - Exempts certain online nursing diploma programs from nursing school accreditation requirements. - Amends TCA Section 63-7-117. Fiscal Summary for *SB1411 / HB1526 MINIMAL Bill Summary for *SB1411 / HB1526 Under present law, an institution desiring to conduct a school of professional nursing, or a school of practical nursing, on ground, distance, online or via other electronic means, must apply to the board of nursing for approval, and submit evidence that it is prepared to: (1) Carry out the prescribed basic professional nursing curriculum, or the prescribed curriculum for practical nursing, as the case may be; and (2) Meet other standards established by general law or by the board. This bill exempts from the above provisions any online nursing diploma program in existence before [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate Delayed Bills Comm. Bill TextGeneral Assembly, Studies - Creates special joint committee to study competitive pay of state schools of nursing faculty. - Fiscal Summary for *SJR0893Increase State Expenditures - $1,700/Each One-Day Meeting
Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Signed by Governor. Bill TextCompanion Bill SB4051. Corporations, For Profit - Adds advance practice nurses and certain physicians to those health care providers who may be members and holders of professional limited liability companies. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 249, Part 11. Fiscal Summary for HB3963 / *SB4051MINIMAL Bill Summary for HB3963 / *SB4051 Under present law, the following licensed health care professionals have a right to be members or holders of financial rights in the same professional limited liability company: (1) Optometrists and ophthalmologists; (2) Podiatrists and physicians and osteopathic physicians, except radiologists, pathologists, or anesthesiologists; (3) Doctors of chiropractic and physicians and osteopathic physicians, except radiologists, pathologists, and anesthesiologists; and (4) Physician assistants and physicians [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Companion House Bill Substituted (sends Senate Bill to deAdopted bill file) Bill TextCompanion Bill HB3963. Corporations, For Profit - Adds advance practice nurses and certain physicians to those health care providers who may be members and holders of professional limited liability companies. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 249, Part 11. Fiscal Summary for *SB4051 / HB3963MINIMAL Bill Summary for *SB4051 / HB3963 Under present law, the following licensed health care professionals have a right to be members or holders of financial rights in the same professional limited liability company: (1) Optometrists and ophthalmologists; (2) Podiatrists and physicians and osteopathic physicians, except radiologists, pathologists, or anesthesiologists; (3) Doctors of chiropractic and physicians and osteopathic physicians, except radiologists, pathologists, and anesthesiologists; and (4) Physician assistants and physicians [...] show full description
Latest Action: 04/02/2008 - Action Deferred in Subcommittee Professional Occupations of HHouse Resolution to summer study Bill TextCompanion Bill SB3875. Nurses, Nursing - Expands duties of nurse practitioners to include post-mortem examinations and the issuance of license plates for disabled persons. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 9, Part 1; Title 38, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 21. Fiscal Summary for HB3985 / *SB3875Increase State Expenditures - $7,300 One-Time Decrease Local Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for HB3985 / *SB3875 Present law generally requires each county legislative body in Tennessee to elect a county medical examiner to perform post-mortem examinations. The county medical examiner must be a doctor of either medicine or osteopathy. A county medical examiner must receive as compensation from county funds an amount as may be fixed by a fiscal body of the county, to be between $25.00 and $75.00, for each death the county medical [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Assigned to Subcommittee Professional Occupations of HHR Bill TextCompanion Bill SB3872. Nurses, Nursing - Authorizes prescriptions by nurse practitioners to be typed or computer generated. - Amends TCA Section 63-7-123. Fiscal Summary for HB4017 / *SB3872Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for HB4017 / *SB3872 This bill adds a requirement that the prescription issued by a nurse practitioner include the year of issuance, in addition to the month and day of issuance. NOTE: This bill purports to amend 63-7-123(b)(3)(B), but it appears that this bill actually amends language contained in 63-7-123(b)(3)(C).
Latest Action: 05/01/2008 - Signed by Governor. Bill TextNurses, Nursing - Authorizes panels of three or more members of board of nursing to hear contested case hearings and disciplinary matters instead of convening a quorum of 11-member board, chairperson of board of nursing would appoint panels. - Amends TCA Section 63-7-116. Fiscal Summary for *HB4196 / SB4194State Expenditures - Net Impact - Not Significant
Latest Action: 05/01/2008 - Signed by Governor. Bill TextNurses, Nursing - Specifies that a person trained by the department of finance and administration, division of mental retardation services, to administer medications to individuals incapable of self-administration is not subject to the nursing licensure requirements if the person is providing personal support services to clients living in their own home or private residence pursuant to a contract or agreement under any Medicaid waiver or other program of the division of mental retardation services. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7. Fiscal Summary for *HB4204 / SB4205Decrease State Expenditures - Not Significant Other Fiscal Impact - Decrease Federal Expenditures - Not Significant
Latest Action: 04/21/2008 - Companion House Bill Substituted (sends Senate Bill to deAdopted bill file) Bill TextNurses, Nursing - Authorizes panels of three or more members of board of nursing to hear contested case hearings and disciplinary matters instead of convening a quorum of 11-member board, chairperson of board of nursing would appoint panels. - Amends TCA Section 63-7-116. Fiscal Summary for SB4194 / *HB4196State Expenditures - Net Impact - Not Significant
Latest Action: 04/21/2008 - Companion House Bill Substituted (sends Senate Bill to deAdopted bill file) Bill TextNurses, Nursing - Specifies that a person trained by the department of finance and administration, division of mental retardation services, to administer medications to individuals incapable of self-administration is not subject to the nursing licensure requirements if the person is providing personal support services to clients living in their own home or private residence pursuant to a contract or agreement under any Medicaid waiver or other program of the division of mental retardation services. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7. Fiscal Summary for SB4205 / *HB4204Decrease State Expenditures - Not Significant Other Fiscal Impact - Decrease Federal Expenditures - Not Significant
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Assigned to Subcommittee Professional Occupations of HHR Bill TextHealth Care - Exempts from requirement that rules regulating physician assistants must be jointly adopted by board of medical examiners and committee on physician assistants, and requirement that rules regulating nurse practitioners must be jointly adopted by board of medical examiners and board of nursing, any rules that address the roles and supervisory responsibilities of supervising physicians. - Amends TCA Title 63. Fiscal Summary for HB3847 / *SB3920Other Fiscal Impact - The Board of Medical Examiners will hold an additional meeting in FY09 at a total cost of $5,200 for travel reimbursements and per diem. These one-time expenditures can be funded from existing resources of the Board without the collection of additional revenue.
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