Drugs, Prescription

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on how electronic requests should be made or consequences for missing the ten-day deadline, leaving these points as limits and unknowns.

Changes in How People Can Ask for Hearings About Medicines

This bill allows people who own or control medicines or medical devices to request hearings electronically if they believe these items are not unsafe as claimed.

What This Bill Does

• Allows owners or people who have medicine or medical devices to request a hearing either by writing or electronically if they think the items are not adulterated (unsafe) as claimed.
• Requires requests for these hearings must happen within ten days of receiving a notice.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who own or have control over medicine or medical devices
• Government agencies responsible for checking the safety of medicines and devices

Terms To Know

Adulterated

Medicine or a device that is not safe to use as it was intended.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how electronic requests should be made.
• It's unclear what happens if someone misses the ten-day deadline for requesting a hearing.

Official Summary Text

Abstract summarizes the bill.

Current Bill Text

HOUSE BILL 2173
By Travis

SENATE BILL 2437
By Taylor
SB2437
012219
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47;
Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to
medications approved by the federal food and
drug administration.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 53-10-106, is amended by deleting
subsection (d) and substituting:
(d) The owner or person in legal possession must request a hearing in writing or
electronically within ten (10) days of receipt of the notice to show cause to the board why
the drugs or devices are not subject to this section.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.