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TN Code § 68-29-136 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-136. Cost of Prosecution — Administering Oaths — Subpoenas — Hearings — Appeal — Compensation of Witnesses

  The board shall promulgate rules governing the assessment of costs against a licensee or other person found by the board to have violated any provision of this chapter. The costs assessed by the board may include only those costs directly related to the prosecution of the charges against the licensee or other person, including investigatory costs where appropriate. The board shall determine the appropriate amount of costs, if any, to be assessed in a contested case. These costs shall be reasonable and proportionate in light of the violation committed by the licensee or other person.    Any elected officer of the board, or any duly appointed or elected chair has the authority to administer oaths to witnesses. Upon probable cause being established, the board, by a vote of two thirds (2/3) of the members to which the board is entitled, may issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents and records.   Service of a subpoena issued by the board shall be made by the sheriff of the county of residence of the licensee or person upon whom the subpoena is served.    A licensee or person served by subpoena shall have thirty (30) days to request, in writing, a hearing before the board for the sole purpose of making a special appearance to quash or modify the subpoena. The subpoena for attendance of the person or the production of books and records shall be stayed until the board votes upon the request to quash or modify the subpoena. A majority vote of the members to which the board is entitled shall be required to quash or modify a subpoena.   A motion to appeal from a decision by the board regarding a request to quash or modify a subpoena shall be made to the chancery court in Davidson County within fifteen (15) days of such decision.     If any witness fails or refuses to obey a subpoena issued by it, the board is authorized to make application to any court of record in this state within the jurisdiction of which the witness is found or resides, and the court shall have power to attach the body of the witness and compel the witness to appear before the board and give testimony or produce books, records or papers as ordered, and any failure to obey the court order may be punished by the court issuing the order as a civil contempt.   Each witness who appears before the board by order of the board shall receive for attendance the compensation provided by law for attendance of witnesses in a court of record, which shall be paid from the funds of the board in the same manner as all other expenses of the board are paid.
TN Code § 68-29-137 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-137. Licensed, Certified Dentists as Medical Laboratory Directors

 In addition to other persons permitted by law or rule to be medical laboratory directors, a dentist licensed in this state, certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and certified in oral pathology by the Tennessee board of dentistry shall be qualified to serve as a medical laboratory director limited to the specialty of oral pathology without obtaining medical laboratory licensure in addition to the dentist's professional license.
TN Code § 68-29-138 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-138. Exemption for Laboratories Certified by Certain Organizations

  Notwithstanding any provisions of official compilation Rules and Regulations of the State of Tennessee, Rule 1200-6-1, or any other rule promulgated by the medical laboratory board to the contrary, a Tennessee medical laboratory shall be licensed in accordance with the rules promulgated under authority of this chapter and as provided in this section if the laboratory:  Is engaged in advanced esoteric applied toxicological, forensic, or biochemical laboratory analysis utilizing emerging technologies, such as chromatographic and non-chromatographic techniques coupled with mass spectrometer based detector systems and molecular diagnostic techniques; and   Is licensed, certified, or accredited by the United States department of health and human resources substance abuse and mental health service administrations (SAMHSA), the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB), the American Board of Forensic Toxicology (ABFT), the College of American Pathologists Laboratory Accreditation Program (CAP LAP), or a state that has been determined to be exempt in accordance with § 353(p) of the Public Health Services Act, 42 U.S.C. § 263a, as having enacted laboratory requirements that are equal to or more stringent than the statutory and regulatory requirements of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA).     A laboratory licensed under subsection (a) shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter, including any rules promulgated under this chapter, that require persons who accept specimens for laboratory examination and perform analytical testing or report the results of a laboratory examination, be licensed as a technologist, technician, laboratory trainee, or special analyst.   In such medical laboratories, laboratory personnel who analyze or report laboratory results shall possess a baccalaureate or advanced degree in the appropriate sciences with at least sixteen (16) semester hours of chemistry and/or biological science courses. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit licensed personnel from performing the tasks for which they are appropriately licensed and trained in such medical laboratories.   Except as provided in subsection (b), such laboratories shall be subject to all other provisions of this chapter, including any rules promulgated under this chapter.
TN Code § 68-29-139 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-139. Clinical Laboratory Testing Advisory Board

  As used in this section:  “Accountable care organization” or “ACO” means the term as defined by Section 3022 of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), as amended; and   “Clinical laboratory testing” means any test as defined under this section, or otherwise subject to Section 353 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. § 263a).     An accountable care organization that provides diagnosis and treatment for patients in this state shall establish a clinical laboratory testing advisory board to consider and recommend guidelines or protocols for clinical laboratory testing.    The clinical laboratory testing advisory board may make recommendations to the ACO governance board for guidelines or protocol adoption for clinical laboratory testing used for diagnostic purposes, disease management, and pathologist consultation on episodes of care.   The ACO clinical laboratory testing advisory board may recommend guidelines or protocols for clinical laboratory testing to ensure appropriate use of testing.   The composition of an ACO clinical laboratory testing advisory board shall be determined by the ACO; provided, however, that the ACO clinical laboratory testing advisory board shall have at least one (1) physician who is a clinical laboratory director, as defined by Section 353 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. § 263a).     Notwithstanding the requirement of this section to establish a clinical laboratory testing advisory board, nothing contained in this section shall be construed to require an ACO governance board to adopt a clinical laboratory testing guideline or protocol recommended by its clinical laboratory testing advisory board.
TN Code § 68-32-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 32 - Blood Donations|§ 68-32-101. Age Limits and Other Restrictions

   Any person seventeen (17) years of age or older, subject to the restrictions and provisions of this section, is acceptable as a blood donor; provided, that any person seventeen (17) years of age shall be accepted as a blood donor on a voluntary basis only. Any person seventeen (17) years of age may be accepted as a blood donor, if the person has had the disability of the person's minority removed, or if the person has the written consent of the person's parent or guardian; provided, that the person may be accepted as a blood donor in the absence of any removal or consent if the person is not compensated for the person's blood donation.    Notwithstanding provisions of this section to the contrary, any person under sixteen (16) years of age may be accepted as a blood donor when a medical necessity exists within the person's immediate family.   “Blood donation,” within the scope of this section, means the donation of whole blood or blood products, including, but not limited to, platelets, red blood cells, white blood cells, or serum.   “Immediate family,” within the scope of subdivision (a)(2)(A), is confined to parents or whole or half siblings.     In order to donate, any person under sixteen (16) years of age must have written consent of the person's parent or guardian and written consent of the person's personal physician dated within two (2) weeks of the date of donation.      Notwithstanding any provisions of this section to the contrary, a person under sixteen (16) years of age may provide autologous blood donations. The autologous blood donations shall require the written consent of the donor's parent or guardian and the written consent of the person's personal physician dated within two (2) weeks of date of donation.   “Autologous blood donation,” within the scope of this section, means the donation of a person's own blood for future use by that person.       Any person sixteen (16) years of age or older, subject to the restrictions and provisions of this section, is acceptable as a blood donor; provided, that any person sixteen (16) years of age shall be accepted as a blood donor on a voluntary basis only and the person has the written consent of the person's parent or guardian.   Any person of sixty-six (66) years of age or older may be accepted as a blood donor, if such person has written consent of the person's personal physician, dated within two (2) weeks of the date of donation. The written consent of the personal physician shall not be required if the person is not compensated for the blood donation.   All persons, regardless of age, must meet all other criteria for acceptability of blood donors as provided in the rules, regulations and policies of the public health council [repealed].
TN Code § 68-32-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 32 - Blood Donations|§ 68-32-102. Facilities to Test for Aids — Contaminated Blood — Cause of Action for Aids Infection From Untested Blood

  All facilities collecting fresh human blood or plasma directly from an individual donor shall have the blood or plasma tested for the potential presence of the causative agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).   Any blood shown by appropriate medical testing to be potentially contaminated by the causative agent for AIDS shall not be used for transfusions, or for any other purposes that may pose a threat of transmission of the virus.   Any person who contracts AIDS from any contaminated blood or blood product shall have a cause of action for damages, including all medical expenses, against any facility supplying untested blood, if the person can establish that such person received any untested blood, or blood product derived from untested blood, from the supplier.   This section shall not apply in those emergency situations where the attending physician determines that failure to transfuse will be life threatening to the patient.
TN Code § 68-32-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 32 - Blood Donations|§ 68-32-103. Patient's Right to Designate Blood Donor

  The department of health shall promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, to provide that any individual who is treated by a health professional or health facility has the option of designating donors to provide blood or blood products to the individual that may be necessary for such individual's treatment.   The regulations promulgated pursuant to this section do not apply in those emergency situations where the attending physician determines that failure to transfuse will be life threatening to the patient.
TN Code § 68-32-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 32 - Blood Donations|§ 68-32-104. Prohibition on Persons With Aids Donating Blood

 If a person knows that the person has received a confirmed positive result from the human T lymphotrophic virus type III antibody test (HTLV-III), or if a person knows that the person is suffering from a confirmed case of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), then it is unlawful for the person to be or attempt to be a blood donor, except when deemed necessary for medical research.
TN Code § 68-34-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 34 - Family Planning Act of 1971|§ 68-34-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Family Planning Act of 1971.”
TN Code § 68-34-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 34 - Family Planning Act of 1971|§ 68-34-102. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Commissioner” means the commissioner of health;   “Contraceptive procedures” means any medically accepted procedure designed to prevent conception;   “Contraceptive supplies” means those medically approved items designed to prevent conception through chemical, mechanical or other means;   “Department” means the department of health; and   “Physician” means any doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy duly licensed to practice such physician's profession in Tennessee or the state in which such physician resides and lawfully practices such physician's profession.
TN Code § 68-34-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 34 - Family Planning Act of 1971|§ 68-34-103. Declaration of Policy

 It is the legislative declaration of the general assembly that:   Continuing population growth either causes or aggravates many social, economic and environmental problems, both in this state and in the nation;   Contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information, and information as to and procedures for voluntary sterilization, are not sufficiently available as a practical matter to many persons in this state;   It is desirable that inhibitions and restrictions be eliminated so that all persons desiring and needing contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information shall have ready and practicable access thereto; and   Section 68-34-104 sets forth the policy and authority of this state, its political subdivisions, and all agencies and institutions thereof, including prohibitions against restrictions, with respect to contraceptive procedures, supplies and information.
TN Code § 68-34-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 34 - Family Planning Act of 1971|§ 68-34-104. Contraceptives — Availability — Information — Religious Belief

 It is the policy and authority of this state that:   All medically acceptable contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information shall be readily and practicably available to each and every person desirous of the same regardless of sex, race, age, income, number of children, marital status, citizenship or motive;   Contraceptive procedures, including medical procedures for permanent sterilization, when performed by a physician on a requesting and consenting patient, are consistent with public policy;   Nothing in this chapter shall inhibit a physician from refusing to furnish any contraceptive procedures, supplies or information where such refusal is for medical reasons;   Dissemination of medically acceptable contraceptive information by duly authorized persons in state and county health and welfare departments, in medical facilities at institutions of higher learning, and at other agencies and instrumentalities of this state is consistent with public policy;   No private institution or physician, nor any agent or employee of such institution or physician, shall be prohibited from refusing to provide contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information when such refusal is based upon religious or conscientious objection, and no such institution, employee, agent, or physician shall be held liable for such refusal; and   To the extent that family planning funds are available, each public health agency of this state and each of its political subdivisions shall provide contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information, including voluntary sterilization procedures for male or female persons eligible for free medical service as determined by rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner. The same service shall be available to all others who are unable to obtain the service privately, at a cost to be determined by rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner.
TN Code § 68-34-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 34 - Family Planning Act of 1971|§ 68-34-105. Disposition of Funds — Development of Program

  The department is authorized to receive and disburse such funds as may be available to it for family planning programs in accordance with this section.    Notwithstanding any other law, any funds that become available to the department for family planning programs, in excess of funds needed to operate family planning programs in county or district health departments, must be awarded to eligible entities in the following order of descending priority:  Public entities that are eligible under state and federal law to provide family planning services, including state, county, and local community health centers, and federally qualified health centers;   Nonpublic entities that are eligible under state and federal law to provide family planning services and that provide comprehensive primary and preventative care services; and   Nonpublic entities that are eligible under state and federal law to provide family planning services, but that do not provide comprehensive primary and preventative care services.     For purposes of subdivisions (b)(1)(B) and (C), “comprehensive primary and preventative care services” means those services described in Sections 330(b)(1)(A)(i)(I), (II), (III)(aa)-(gg) and (IV), and 330(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 254b(b)(1)(A)(i)(I), (II), (III)(aa)-(gg), (IV), and 42 U.S.C. § 254b(b)(1)(A)(ii)) as well as pharmaceutical services as may be appropriate for particular entities.     Notwithstanding subsection (b), the department shall ensure, in compliance with federal law, distribution of funds for family planning services in a manner that does not severely limit or eliminate access to those services in any region of the state.
TN Code § 68-34-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 34 - Family Planning Act of 1971|§ 68-34-106. Rules and Regulations

 The commissioner is authorized to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to enable the department to implement this chapter.
TN Code § 68-34-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 34 - Family Planning Act of 1971|§ 68-34-107. Contraceptives for Minors

 Contraceptive supplies and information may be furnished by physicians to any minor who is pregnant, a parent, or married, or who has the consent of the minor's parent or legal guardian, or who has been referred for such service by another physician, a clergy member, a family planning clinic, a school or institution of higher learning, or any agency or instrumentality of this state or any subdivision of the state, or who requests and is in need of birth control procedures, supplies or information.
TN Code § 68-34-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 34 - Family Planning Act of 1971|§ 68-34-108. Sterilization for Minors

 It is lawful for any physician or surgeon licensed in this state, when so requested by any person eighteen (18) years of age or over, or less than eighteen (18) years of age if legally married, to perform upon such person a surgical interruption of the vas deferens or fallopian tubes, as the case may be; provided, that a request in writing is made by such person prior to the performance of such surgical operation; and provided further, that prior to, or at the time of such request, a full and reasonable medical explanation is given by the physician or surgeon to such person as to the meaning and consequence of the operation.
TN Code § 68-34-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 34 - Family Planning Act of 1971|§ 68-34-109. Physician Liability for Sterilization

 Subject to the rules of law applicable generally to negligence, no physician or surgeon licensed by this state shall be liable civilly or criminally by reason of having performed surgical interruption of vas deferens or fallopian tubes, as the case may be, authorized by this chapter upon any person in this state.
TN Code § 68-34-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 34 - Family Planning Act of 1971|§ 68-34-110. Legislative Determination

 The general assembly finds, determines and declares that this chapter is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.
TN Code § 68-34-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 34 - Family Planning Act of 1971|§ 68-34-111. Criminal Penalties

 It is a Class C misdemeanor to threaten, coerce, intimidate or require any person to submit to any surgical procedure authorized by this chapter.
TN Code § 68-35-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 35 - Renal Disease|§ 68-35-101. Renal Disease Program

  The department of health shall establish a program for the care and treatment of persons suffering from chronic renal disease.   This program shall assist persons suffering from chronic renal diseases who require lifesaving care and treatment for such renal disease, but who are unable to pay for such services on a continuing basis.