Health Care - As enacted, allows a healthcare provider to petition a relevant board after completing a peer assistance or treatment program contract to remove information from the public-facing licensure verification web, the official text

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                        ~tate of ~ennessee

                         PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 100

                                                  HOUSE BILL NO. 657

   By Representatives Tim Hicks, Behn, Helton-Haynes, Alexander, Renea Jones, Butler

                                        Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 619

                                       By Senators Harshbarger, Campbell

         AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to
health care.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-32-105, is amended by adding the
following as a new subsection:

                    (g)

                              (1) A provider, who is licensed or registered in this state and who has had
                    an adverse action taken against the provider's license or registration by a
                    relevant board made public pursuant to this section, and such action resulted in
                    an order by that board being issued requiring completion of a program or contract
                    for peer assistance for substance use disorder or substance use treatment, has
                    the right to petition the relevant board following completion of all requirements in
                    the peer assistance or treatment program contract to remove information from
                    the public-facing licensure verification website regarding the adverse action and
                    the order by the relevant board after five (5) years from the completion date of
                    that program or contract indicated in such order.

                              (2)

                                         (A) The relevant board shall review and make a determination on
                               a removal request submitted pursuant to subdivision (g)(1 ). If the relevant
                               board approves the request, then that board shall remove the requested
                               information from the public-facing licensure verification website pursuant
                               to this section.

                                         (B) The order remains a public record, as defined in § 10-7-503.

                               (3) As used in this subsection, "adverse action" means a disciplinary
                     action taken by a licensing board created pursuant to this title.

                               (4) The division of health related boards is authorized to promulgate rules
                     to effectuate this act. The rules must be promulgated in accordance with the
                     Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.

           SECTION 2. For purposes of promulgating rules, this act takes effect upon becoming a
 law, the public welfare requiring it. For all other purposes, this act takes effect July 1, 2025, the
 public welfare requiring it.
                      HOUSE BILL NO. 657

PASSED:  March 10, 2025

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                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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