Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB1269 Latest Draft

Bill / Chaptered Version Filed 03/28/2025

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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 47 
HOUSE BILL NO. 104 
By Representatives Lamberth, Cochran, Raper 
Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1269 
By Senators Johnson, Massey, Crowe 
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 12; Title 33; Title 34; Title 
36; Title 39; Title 49; Title 52; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 688 of the Public Acts of 2024, 
relative to the department of disability and aging. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-29-248(a)(19), is amended by 
deleting the language "intellectual and developmental disabilities" and substituting instead 
"disability and aging". 
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-31-703(3), is amended by deleting 
the language "intellectual and developmental disabilities" and substituting instead " disability 
and aging". 
SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 12-2-117(e), is amended by deleting 
the language "department of intellectual and developmental disabilities" and "department of 
intellectual and developmental disabilities services" wherever it appears and substituting instead 
"department of disability and aging". 
SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 33-3-802, is amended by deleting the 
language ", or intellectual disability". 
SECTION 5. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 33-3-803, is amended by deleting the 
language", or intellectual disability". 
SECTION 6. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 33-3-904, is amended by deleting the 
language ", or developmental disability" wherever it appears. 
SECTION 7. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 34-1-106(b), is amended by deleting 
the language "intellectual and developmental disabilities" and substituting instead "disability and 
aging". 
SECTION 8. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 34-1-108(c)(3), is amended by 
deleting the language "intellectual and developmental disabilities" and substituting instead 
"disability and aging". 
SECTION 9. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 36-3-106(b), is amended by deleting 
the language "intellectual and developmental disabilities" and substituting instead "disability and 
aging". 
SECTION 10. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-16-517(b)(2), is amended by 
deleting the language "as defined in§ 33-1-101" and substituting instead "as defined in§ 52-1-
101". • 
SECTION 11. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-802(b)(8), is amended by 
deleting the language "intellectual and developmental disabilities" and substituting instead 
"disability and aging". 
SECTION 12. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 52-3-101(d), is amended by deleting 
the subsection and substituting instead:  HB104 
( d) The department and its contracted providers shall keep records detailing 
services or supports received by each person with an intellectual or developmental 
disability. Service and support records of departmental facilities and clinics, as well as 
individual support plan records, must be preserved by the department for not less than 
ten (1 O) years after termination of services. Service and support records for minors 
receiving services in departmental facilities and clinics must be kept for not less than ten 
(1 O) years after the minor reaches the age of majority. All other departmental records 
and records of the department's contracted service providers must be preserved for not 
less than six (6) years. The records may be generated, maintained, or transferred in 
whole or in part to any recording medium that assures accurate preservation of the 
record. If a record is transferred from one (1) medium to another, then the source record 
may be destroyed upon determination by the department that the reproduced record is 
true and correct and will be accurately preserved. The reproduced record is deemed to 
be the original record. 
SECTION 13. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 52-3-104, is amended by deleting 
subdivisions (1) and (2) and substituting instead: 
(1) A person supported who is an emancipated minor as described in§ 52-7-104; 
(2) A conservator whom the court has granted the authority to make such 
disclosures for the person supported or granted the authority to make healthcare 
decisions for the person supported; provided, however, that a conservatorship over the 
estate or property alone does not have authority to disclose confidential information 
under this title; 
SECTION 14. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-1-904(c), is amended by deleting 
"department of intellectual and developmental disabilities" and substituting instead "department 
of disability and aging" and by deleting "title 33" wherever it appears and substituting instead 
"title 33 or title 52". 
SECTION 15. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-11-201 (23)(8), is amended by 
deleting "pursuant to title 33, chapter 2, part 4" and substituting instead "pursuant to title 52, 
chapter 2, part 4". 
SECTION 16. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 71-5-105(c), is amended by deleting 
the subsection and substituting instead: 
(c) Notwithstanding any authority to the contrary, DOA public ICF/11D non-facility 
beds established pursuant to federal litigation settlements or orders arising out of the 
cases United States v. State of Tennessee, et al., No. 92-2062-ML/A (Docket) (W.D. 
Tenn. 1992), or People First of Tennessee, et al., v. Clover Bottom Developmental 
Center, et al., No. 00-5342 (Docket) (C.A.6 Mar. 22, 2000), are exempt from all 
requirements and processes for the application and granting of certificates of need as 
set forth in § 68-11-1607. The establishment of all private I CF /II D non-facility beds 
remains subject to certificate of need requirements and processes. 
SECTION 17. SECTION 12 takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it. For 
all other purposes, this act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. 
2  HOUSE BILL NO. 104 
PASSED: March 3, 2025 
CAMERON'"SEXTON,SPEAKER 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
RANDY 
SPEAKER OFT 
APPROVED this f}J.pt;J;. day of ~ 2025 
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BILL LEE, GOVERNOR