Official Summary Text
This bill prohibits a physician or podiatrist from prescribing, dispensing, or administering medication for, or otherwise treating, the physician's or
podiatrist's own self or immediate family, except in minor, self-limited, short-term, or urgent, emergency situations. However, a physician may prescribe, dispense, or administer medication for, or otherwise treat, immediate family within the physician's
regular scope of practice if there is no other physician offering healthcare services at a location within 30 miles of the physician's primary practice site.
This bill also prohibits a physician or podiatrist from prescribing, dispensing, or administerin
g a scheduled drug to the physician's or podiatrist's own self or for immediate family.
This bill requires a physician or podiatrist to maintain records of all treatment provided pursuant to this bill.
ON APRIL 15, 2025, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1
AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 1205, AS AMENDED.
AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, make the following revisions to present law:
Authorizes a physician or podiatrist to prescribe, dispense, or administer medication for, or otherwise treat, the physician's or podiatrist's own self or immediate family in short-term, minor, or acute, emergency situations.
Authorizes a physician or podiatrist to prescribe, dispense, or administer a scheduled drug to the physician's or podiatrist's own self or immediate family only in acute, emergency situations.
Authorizes a physician or podiatrist to prescribe, dispense, or administer medication for, or otherwise treat, immediate family within the physician's or podiatrist's regular scope of practice if there is no other physician or podiatrist offering healthcare services at a location within 30 miles of the physician's or podiatrist's primary practice site.
Provides that, if there is an established provider-patient relationship between a supervising or collaborating physician or podiatrist and a supervisee, which includes a chart for such physician or podiatrist, the supervisee may prescribe, dispense, or administer medication for, or otherwise treat, a supervising or collaborating physician or podiatrist or such physician's or podiatrist's immediate family only in acute or emergency situations.
Authorizes a supervisee to prescribe, dispense, or administer scheduled drugs for a supervising or collaborating physician or podiatrist or the supervising or collaborating physician's or podiatrist's immediate family only in acute, emergency situations.
Requires a physician, podiatrist, or supervisee to maintain records of all treatment provided pursuant to the bill.
ON APRIL 21, 2025, THE SENATE SUBSTITUTED HOUSE BILL 1205 FOR SENATE BILL 1153 AND REFERRED HOUSE BILL 1205 TO THE HEALTH COMMITTEE.
Current Bill Text
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HOUSE BILL 1205
By Kumar
SENATE BILL 1153
By Crowe
SB1153
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33;
Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to
healthcare services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2, is amended by
adding the following as a new section:
(a) As used in this section:
(1) ''Immediate family'' means a physician's or podiatrist's spouse, parent,
child, sibling, or another individual in relation to whom a physician's or podiatrist's
personal or emotional involvement may render that physician or podiatrist unable
to exercise detached professional judgment in reaching diagnostic or therapeutic
decisions;
(2) ''Physician'' means a physician licensed under this chapter or chapter
9 of this title;
(3) ''Podiatrist'' has the same meaning as defined in § 63-3-101; and
(4) ''Scheduled drug'' means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor
in Schedules I through V of the federal Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. §
812).
(b) A physician or podiatrist shall maintain records of all treatment provided
pursuant to this section.
(c) A physician or podiatrist shall not prescribe, dispense, or administer
medication for, or otherwise treat, the physician's or podiatrist's own self or immediate
family, except in minor, self-limited, short-term, or urgent, emergency situations.
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(d) Notwithstanding subsection (c) or (e), a physician or podiatrist shall not
prescribe, dispense, or administer a scheduled drug to the physician's or podiatrist's own
self or for immediate family.
(e) Notwithstanding subsection (c), a physician may prescribe, dispense, or
administer medication for, or otherwise treat, immediate family within the physician's
regular scope of practice if there is no other physician offering healthcare services at a
location within thirty (30) miles of the physician's primary practice site.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.