Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0658 Compare Versions

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2	2	SENATE BILL 502
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5	5	HOUSE BILL 658
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13	13	AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63,
14	14	Chapter 24 relative to athletic trainers.
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16	16	BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
17	17	SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-24-101, is amended by deleting
18	18	the section and substituting:
19	19	As used in this chapter:
20	20	(1) "Athletic injury" means any injury or condition that limits or prevents a
21	21	person's participation in exercises, sports, games, or recreation, or other
22	22	activities requiring physical strength, agility, flexibility, range of motion, speed, or
23	23	stamina or a condition that prevents the person from participating in such
24	24	activities;
25	25	(2) "Athletic trainer" means a healthcare provider with the qualifications
26	26	prescribed in this chapter who, upon the advice, consent, and oral or written
27	27	prescriptions or referrals of a physician licensed under this title, carries out the
28	28	practice of prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition,
29	29	treatment, or rehabilitation of athletic injuries, and, in carrying out such functions
30	30	is authorized to use manual techniques; physical modalities, such as heat, light,
31	31	sound, cold, electricity, or therapeutic devices; and healthcare procedures related
32	32	to prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition, rehabilitation,
33	33	and treatment; athletic trainers shall practice only in areas they are competent,
34	34	by reason of training or experience that can be substantiated by records or other
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39	39	evidence deemed acceptable by the board in the exercise of the board's
40	40	discretion;
41	41	(3) "Board" means the board of athletic trainers;
42	42	(4) "Board of Certification" or "BOC" means the Board of Certification for
43	43	the Athletic Trainer, Inc.; and
44	44	(5) "Healthcare procedures" means a course of action intended to
45	45	achieve a result in the delivery of health care, including rectal core thermometer
46	46	administration, blood glucose monitoring, injection administration, wound closure,
47	47	dry needling application, and intravenous fluid administration.
48	48	SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-24-103, is amended by deleting
49	49	the section and substituting:
50	50	(a) A person shall not represent themselves or claim to be an athletic trainer or
51	51	perform any of the activities of an athletic trainer without first obtaining a license under
52	52	this chapter.
53	53	(b) This chapter does not prevent a person from serving as an athletic training
54	54	student, or a similar position if such service is not primarily for compensation and is
55	55	carried out under the supervision of a licensed athletic trainer and a physician licensed
56	56	under chapter 6 or chapter 9 of this title. Such supervision must be provided under the
57	57	guidelines of the Board of Certification and approved by the board.
58	58	SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-24-104(a)(2), is amended by
59	59	deleting the subdivision and substituting:
60	60	(2) Satisfactorily completed all of the Board of Certification qualifications and be
61	61	certified as an athletic trainer in good standing by the BOC and approved by the board.
62	62	SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-24-104(b), is amended by
63	63	deleting the language:
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68	68	An out-of-state applicant from a state not having a licensure or certification act
69	69	will be eligible to take the jurisprudence examination if certified by the NATA
70	70	Board of Certification, Inc., and approved by the board.
71	71	and substituting:
72	72	An out-of-state applicant from a state not having a current licensure or
73	73	certification act or an expired license or certificate in good standing at time of
74	74	expiration will be eligible to take the jurisprudence examination if certified by the
75	75	Board of Certification and approved by the board.
76	76	SECTION 5. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-24-105(a)(2), is amended by
77	77	deleting the subdivision and substituting:
78	78	(2) The applicant is entitled to an athletic trainer's license if the applicant
79	79	possesses the qualifications enumerated in § 63-24-104; completes and passes the
80	80	certification requirements and examination of the Board of Certification or its equivalent
81	81	as determined by the board; completes the jurisprudence examination administered and
82	82	selected by the board, to its satisfaction; pays the licensure fee as prescribed in § 63-24-
83	83	106; and has not committed an act that constitutes grounds for denial of a license under
84	84	§ 63-24-107.
85	85	SECTION 6. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.