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SB1196 • 2026

Hospitals and Health Care Facilities

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63 and Title 68, relative to long-term care.

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Sponsor
Jackson, Helton-Haynes
Last action
2025-02-12
Official status
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact visibility requirements for electronic screens beyond being 'clearly visible'.

Hospitals and Health Care Facilities Act

This bill allows assisted-care living facilities in Tennessee to display required information on electronic screens if approved by the licensing board.

What This Bill Does

  • Allows assisted-care living facilities to use electronic screens to display necessary information if approved by the licensing board for health care facilities.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Assisted-care living facilities in Tennessee
  • Residents and visitors of these facilities

Terms To Know

assisted-care living facility
A place where people who need help with daily activities live and receive care.
licensing board for health care facilities
The group that decides if a health care facility can operate in Tennessee.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify what kind of information must be shown on the screens.
  • It is unclear how this change will affect other types of health care facilities besides assisted-care living ones.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-12 Tennessee General Assembly

    Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee

  2. 2025-02-10 Tennessee General Assembly

    Introduced, Passed on First Consideration

  3. 2025-02-06 Tennessee General Assembly

    Filed for introduction

  4. 2025-02-06 Tennessee General Assembly

    P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.

  5. 2025-02-05 Tennessee General Assembly

    Intro., P1C.

  6. 2025-02-03 Tennessee General Assembly

    Filed for introduction

Official Summary Text

Abstract summarizes the bill.

Current Bill Text

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HOUSE BILL 724
By Helton-Haynes

SENATE BILL 1196
By Jackson

SB1196
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63
and Title 68, relative to long-term care.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-11-232, is amended by adding
the following new subsection (d):
(d) If approved by the board for licensing health care facilities, an assisted-care
living facility may comply with any requirement to post information in the facility by
making such information available on an electronic screen clearly visible to residents
and the public.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.