HOUSE BILL 15
By Love
SENATE BILL 501
By Akbari
SB0501
000462
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4 and
Title 71, Chapter 5, relative to expanding medicaid
to provide sickle cell treatment.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 71-5-126, is amended by deleting the
section and substituting:
The governor is authorized to expand medicaid eligibility solely for the purpose of
providing treatment for a patient with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease in accordance
with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. No. 111-148). The
governor is authorized to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid
services with respect to the terms of medicaid expansion for such purpose.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.