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Latest Action: 02/14/2007 - Assigned to Subcommittee Health Care Facilities of HHR Bill TextHospitals and Health Care Facilities - Requires health services and development agency to provide written notice of decision approving or denying application and certificate of need on Web site available to the public. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11. Fiscal Summary for *HB0323 / SB1346 Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant
Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate GW,H&House Resolution Comm. Bill TextHospitals and Health Care Facilities - Requires health services and development agency to provide written notice of decision approving or denying application and certificate of need on Web site available to the public. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11. Fiscal Summary for SB1346 / *HB0323 Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant
Latest Action: 04/25/2007 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in Subcommittee Public Health and Family Assistance of HHouse Resolution of Health & Human Resources Committee Bill TextMental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Provides that certain undiagnosed persons who meet the qualifications for mental retardation and certain diagnosed autistic persons shall be entitled to access the programs and services provided by the department. - Amends TCA Title 33. Fiscal Summary for HB1570 / *SB1549Increase State Expenditures - Exceeds $1,000,000
Latest Action: 05/15/2007 - Public Chapter 96 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB1657. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Specifies that a professional permitted by department rule to authorize isolation and restraint must be contacted immediately after isolation and restraint and must evaluate the person's condition. - Amends TCA Section 33-3-120(b). Fiscal Summary for HB1604 / *SB1657MINIMAL Bill Summary for HB1604 / *SB1657 ON APRIL 9, 2007, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 1604, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 clarifies that a "professional" instead of a "qualified mental health professional" who is permitted by department rule to authorize isolation and restraint must be contacted immediately after isolation and restraint is imposed and that such professional must evaluate "the person's condition" instead of "the need for isolation and restraint."
Latest Action: 02/21/2007 - Passed second consideration, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. Bill TextMental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Decreases time period within which notice to next of kin of deceased patient or resident must be mailed from within 10 days to within five days of patient's or resident's death. - Amends TCA Title 33. Fiscal Summary for HB1713 / *SB1853Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant
Latest Action: 06/19/2007 - Companion became Public Chapter 408 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB0838. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Requires personal support services agencies to make certain disclosures to clients regarding potential liability as employers of personal support services workers. - Amends TCA Title 33. Fiscal Summary for HB2088 / *SB0838Increase State Expenditures - $209,400 Recurring $5,400 One-Time Bill Summary for HB2088 / *SB0838 This bill requires person support services agencies to: (1) Provide to each service recipient a consumer notice that includes, at a minimum, the following: (A) The duties, responsibilities, obligations and legal liabilities of the personal support services agency to the personal support services workers and to the consumer (including information regarding the consumer's responsibility to perform a criminal background [...] show full description
Latest Action: 06/06/2007 - Public Chapter 304 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB0836. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Extends the exemption from licensure for a person providing personal care to one person with a mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability to include persons providing such service to other service recipient and not in a business arrangement with any other service recipient; exemption does not apply to an individual who holds himself out to the public as being in the business of personal support services for compensation. - Amends TCA Title 33. Fiscal Summary for HB2089 / *SB0836Increase State Revenues - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for HB2089 / *SB0836 ON MAY 10, 2007, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2089, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill and revises [...] show full description
Latest Action: 06/06/2007 - Companion became Public Chapter 304 Bill TextCompanion Bill HB2089. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Extends the exemption from licensure for a person providing personal care to one person with a mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability to include persons providing such service to other service recipient and not in a business arrangement with any other service recipient; exemption does not apply to an individual who holds himself out to the public as being in the business of personal support services for compensation. - Amends TCA Title 33. Fiscal Summary for *SB0836 / HB2089Increase State Revenues - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *SB0836 / HB2089 ON MAY 10, 2007, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2089, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill and revises [...] show full description
Latest Action: 06/19/2007 - Public Chapter 408 Bill TextCompanion Bill HB2088. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Requires personal support services agencies to make certain disclosures to clients regarding potential liability as employers of personal support services workers. - Amends TCA Title 33. Fiscal Summary for *SB0838 / HB2088Increase State Expenditures - $209,400 Recurring $5,400 One-Time Bill Summary for *SB0838 / HB2088 This bill requires person support services agencies to: (1) Provide to each service recipient a consumer notice that includes, at a minimum, the following: (A) The duties, responsibilities, obligations and legal liabilities of the personal support services agency to the personal support services workers and to the consumer (including information regarding the consumer's responsibility to perform a criminal background [...] show full description
Latest Action: 04/25/2007 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of: SenateGW,H&House Resolution Comm. Bill TextMental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Provides that certain undiagnosed persons who meet the qualifications for mental retardation and certain diagnosed autistic persons shall be entitled to access the programs and services provided by the department. - Amends TCA Title 33. Fiscal Summary for *SB1549 / HB1570Increase State Expenditures - Exceeds $1,000,000
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Latest Action: 05/08/2008 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in: Study Committee Sub-committee of Budget Bill TextGeneral Assembly, Studies - Creates special joint committee to study feasibility of transferring division of mental retardation from department of finance and administration to department of mental health and developmental disabilities. - Fiscal Summary for *HJR1091Increase State Expenditures - $1,700/Each One-Day Meeting
Latest Action: 02/27/2008 - Sponsor change. Bill TextCompanion Bill SB4183. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Specifies that exclusion from exemption from licensure as a mental health and developmental disabilities service or facility for individuals in a business arrangement with a service recipient, or who holds out to public as being in business of personal support services for compensation, does not apply to division of mental retardation. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 2. Fiscal Summary for *HB4146 / SB4183Other Fiscal Impact - The Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities will incur an estimated reduction of departmental revenue of $158,800. Bill Summary for *HB4146 / SB4183 Under present law, the department of mental health and developmental disabilities has the authority to license services and facilities operated for the provision of mental health,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 04/02/2008 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of Senate GW,H&House Resolution Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB4146. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Specifies that exclusion from exemption from licensure as a mental health and developmental disabilities service or facility for individuals in a business arrangement with a service recipient, or who holds out to public as being in business of personal support services for compensation, does not apply to division of mental retardation. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 2. Fiscal Summary for SB4183 / *HB4146Other Fiscal Impact - The Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities will incur an estimated reduction of departmental revenue of $158,800. Bill Summary for SB4183 / *HB4146 Under present law, the department of mental health and developmental disabilities has the authority to license services and facilities operated for the provision of mental health,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/23/2008 - Companion became Public Chapter 942 Bill TextSunset Laws - Department of mental health and developmental disabilities, statewide planning and policy council, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 33, Chapter 1, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for HB3573 / *SB2419 MINIMAL
Latest Action: 05/23/2008 - Companion became Public Chapter 943 Bill TextSunset Laws - Department of mental health and developmental disabilities, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 16 and Title 33, Chapter 1, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for HB3577 / *SB2420 MINIMAL
Latest Action: 05/14/2008 - Placed on Subcommittee Calendar Budget of Finance, Ways and Means for 05/19/2008 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB2651. Mental Retardation - Requires a planning process for persons with developmental disabilities other than mental retardation and requires services to additional persons in the family support program and the personal supports program. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5. Fiscal Summary for *HB2569 / SB2651Increase State Expenditures - $2,349,600 FY08-09 Bill Summary for *HB2569 / SB2651 The family support program, administered by the division of mental retardation services, provides services to people with severe or developmental disabilities and their families. This bill requires the program, during the fiscal year 2008-2009, to serve 560 more persons who are on the waiting list for such services than those funded in 2007-2008, at an annual average cost of $1,785 per person. This bill also requires during fiscal year 2008-2009,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/19/2008 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of: Senate Finance, Ways and Means Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB2569. Mental Retardation - Requires a planning process for persons with developmental disabilities other than mental retardation and requires services to additional persons in the family support program and the personal supports program. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5. Fiscal Summary for SB2651 / *HB2569Increase State Expenditures - $2,349,600 FY08-09 Bill Summary for SB2651 / *HB2569 The family support program, administered by the division of mental retardation services, provides services to people with severe or developmental disabilities and their families. This bill requires the program, during the fiscal year 2008-2009, to serve 560 more persons who are on the waiting list for such services than those funded in 2007-2008, at an annual average cost of $1,785 per person. This bill also requires during fiscal year 2008-2009,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 06/11/2008 - Companion became Public Chapter 1062 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB2582. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Establishes a council on children's mental health care to design a plan for a statewide system of mental healthcare for children. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 33; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71. Fiscal Summary for *HB2502 / SB2582MINIMAL Bill Summary for *HB2502 / SB2582 ON APRIL 10, 2008, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2582, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill to establish a council on children's mental health care, organized by the Tennessee commission on children and youth, to design a plan for a statewide system of mental health care for children. The council would be co-chaired by the executive director of the commission on children and youth and the commissioner of mental health and developmental disabilities or [...] show full description
Latest Action: 06/11/2008 - Public Chapter 1062 Bill TextCompanion Bill HB2502. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Establishes a council on children's mental health care to design a plan for a statewide system of mental healthcare for children. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 33; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71. Fiscal Summary for SB2582 / *HB2502MINIMAL Bill Summary for SB2582 / *HB2502 ON APRIL 10, 2008, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2582, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill to establish a council on children's mental health care, organized by the Tennessee commission on children and youth, to design a plan for a statewide system of mental health care for children. The council would be co-chaired by the executive director of the commission on children and youth and the commissioner of mental health and developmental disabilities or [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/23/2008 - Public Chapter 942 Bill TextSunset Laws - Department of mental health and developmental disabilities, statewide planning and policy council, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 33, Chapter 1, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for *SB2419 / HB3573 MINIMAL
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