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| 7 | - | PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 147 | |
| 8 | - | HOUSE BILL NO. 702 | |
| 9 | - | By Representatives Leatherwood, Hill | |
| 10 | - | Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 267 | |
| 11 | - | By Senator Hensley | |
| 12 | - | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 29, relative to medical | |
| 13 | - | laboratories. | |
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| 2 | + | SENATE BILL 267 | |
| 3 | + | By Hensley | |
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| 5 | + | HOUSE BILL 702 | |
| 6 | + | By Leatherwood | |
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| 9 | + | HB0702 | |
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| 13 | + | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, | |
| 14 | + | Chapter 29, relative to medical laboratories. | |
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| 14 | 16 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: | |
| 15 | - | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-29-122(c), is amended by | |
| 16 | - | the subsection and substituting: | |
| 17 | + | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-29-122(c), is amended by | |
| 18 | + | deleting the subsection and substituting: | |
| 17 | 19 | (c) | |
| 18 | 20 | (1) A collection station operated by a medical laboratory owner that is a | |
| 19 | 21 | licensee of a medical laboratory in this state does not require an additional | |
| 20 | 22 | license, without regard to where specimens collected at the medical laboratory | |
| 21 | 23 | owner's collection stations are transported, as long as the medical laboratory | |
| 22 | 24 | owner of the licensed medical laboratory retains ownership of the medical | |
| 23 | - | laboratory and oversight of the collection stations, including maintaining and | |
| 24 | - | producing to the board in the event of a complaint investigation all relevant and | |
| 25 | - | non-privileged records associated with the collection stations for purposes of | |
| 26 | - | oversight by the board. | |
| 25 | + | laboratory and oversight of the collection stations. | |
| 27 | 26 | (2) A collection station operated by a person who is not a medical | |
| 28 | - | laboratory owner of a medical laboratory located in this state | |
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| 27 | + | laboratory owner that is a licensee of a medical laboratory located in this state | |
| 28 | + | must have a license issued by the board. | |
| 30 | 29 | (3) All collection stations must comply with rules prescribed by the board. | |
| 31 | - | SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it. HOUSE BILL NO. 702 | |
| 32 | - | PASSED: March 24, 2025 | |
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| 34 | - | CAMERON SEXTON, SPEAKER | |
| 35 | - | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | |
| 36 | - | RANDY ~NALLY | |
| 37 | - | SPEAKER OF THE,ENATE | |
| 38 | - | APPROVED this 7:;rJ. day of /\pr: 2025 | |
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| 40 | - | BILL LEE, GOVERNOR | |
| 30 | + | SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it. |