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| 2 | 2 | | SENATE BILL 1153 |
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| 3 | 3 | | By Crowe |
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| 5 | 5 | | HOUSE BILL 1205 |
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| 6 | 6 | | By Kumar |
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| 9 | 9 | | HB1205 |
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| 10 | 10 | | 003038 |
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| 11 | 11 | | - 1 - |
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| 13 | 13 | | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; |
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| 14 | 14 | | Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to |
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| 15 | 15 | | healthcare services. |
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| 17 | 17 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2, is amended by |
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| 19 | 19 | | adding the following as a new section: |
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| 20 | 20 | | (a) As used in this section: |
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| 21 | 21 | | (1) ''Immediate family'' means a physician's or podiatrist's spouse, parent, |
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| 22 | 22 | | child, sibling, or another individual in relation to whom a physician's or podiatrist's |
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| 23 | 23 | | personal or emotional involvement may render that physician or podiatrist unable |
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| 24 | 24 | | to exercise detached professional judgment in reaching diagnostic or therapeutic |
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| 25 | 25 | | decisions; |
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| 26 | 26 | | (2) ''Physician'' means a physician licensed under this chapter or chapter |
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| 27 | 27 | | 9 of this title; |
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| 28 | 28 | | (3) ''Podiatrist'' has the same meaning as defined in § 63-3-101; and |
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| 29 | 29 | | (4) ''Scheduled drug'' means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor |
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| 30 | 30 | | in Schedules I through V of the federal Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. § |
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| 31 | 31 | | 812). |
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| 32 | 32 | | (b) A physician or podiatrist shall maintain records of all treatment provided |
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| 33 | 33 | | pursuant to this section. |
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| 34 | 34 | | (c) A physician or podiatrist shall not prescribe, dispense, or administer |
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| 35 | 35 | | medication for, or otherwise treat, the physician's or podiatrist's own self or immediate |
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| 36 | 36 | | family, except in minor, self-limited, short-term, or urgent, emergency situations. |
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| 39 | 39 | | - 2 - 003038 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (d) Notwithstanding subsection (c) or (e), a physician or podiatrist shall not |
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| 42 | 42 | | prescribe, dispense, or administer a scheduled drug to the physician's or podiatrist's own |
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| 43 | 43 | | self or for immediate family. |
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| 44 | 44 | | (e) Notwithstanding subsection (c), a physician may prescribe, dispense, or |
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| 45 | 45 | | administer medication for, or otherwise treat, immediate family within the physician's |
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| 46 | 46 | | regular scope of practice if there is no other physician offering healthcare services at a |
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| 47 | 47 | | location within thirty (30) miles of the physician's primary practice site. |
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| 48 | 48 | | SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. |
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