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TN Code § 32-1-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 2 - Revocation|§ 32-1-202. Revocation by Divorce or Annulment

  If after executing a will the testator is divorced or the testator's marriage annulled, the divorce or annulment revokes any disposition or appointment of property made by the will to the former spouse, any provision conferring a general or special power of appointment on the former spouse, and any nomination of the former spouse as executor, trustee, conservator or guardian, unless the will expressly provides otherwise.   Property prevented from passing to a former spouse because of revocation by divorce or annulment passes as if the former spouse failed to survive the decedent but § 32-3-105 shall not apply. Other provisions conferring some power or office on the former spouse are interpreted as if the spouse failed to survive the decedent.   If provisions are revoked solely by this section, they are revived by the testator's remarriage to the former spouse.   For purposes of this section, divorce or annulment means any divorce or annulment that would exclude the spouse as a surviving spouse within the meaning of § 31-1-102(b). A decree of separation that does not terminate the status of husband and wife is not a divorce for purposes of this section.   No change of circumstances other than as described in this and § 32-1-201 revokes a will.
TN Code § 33-1-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 2 - Policies, Values, and Principles|§ 33-1-201. Responsibilities of Department — State Policy Toward Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities

 The department serves as the state's mental health and developmental disabilities authority and is responsible for system planning, setting policy and quality standards, system monitoring and evaluation, disseminating public information and advocacy for persons of all ages who have mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disabilities. It is the policy of the state to plan on the basis of and to promote the use of private and public service providers, without regard for funding source, to achieve outcomes and accomplishments that create opportunities for service recipients and potential service recipients to have the greatest possible control of their lives in the least restrictive environment that is appropriate for each person. The department shall plan for and promote the availability of a comprehensive array of high quality prevention, early intervention, treatment, and habilitation services and supports based on the needs and choices of service recipients and families served. The department shall include service recipients and members of service recipients' families in planning, developing, and monitoring the service systems.
TN Code § 33-1-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 2 - Policies, Values, and Principles|§ 33-1-202. Statement of Values Underlying Title

 Values upon which the law is predicated include, but are not limited to, individual rights, promotion of self-determination, respect, optimal health and safety, service recipient inclusion in the community, and service recipient life and service in typical community settings.
TN Code § 33-1-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 2 - Policies, Values, and Principles|§ 33-1-203. Principles of Service

 The following service principles are fundamental to carrying out the department's responsibilities:   Stable service systems that provide flexibility, advocacy, effective communication, targeted outcomes, continuous evaluation, and improvement based on best practice and research;   Early identification of needs and the inclusion of both prevention and early intervention services and supports;   Timely response to the needs, rights and desires of those served;   Treating service recipients and families with dignity and respect;   Protection of service recipients from abuse, neglect, and exploitation;   Accurate and responsible accountability for the use of public resources;   Ongoing education and skills development of the workforce; and   Cultural competence of persons providing service.
TN Code § 33-1-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 2 - Policies, Values, and Principles|§ 33-1-204. Unnecessary Entitlements Not Created — Programs Subject to Funding by General Assembly

  This title shall not create entitlement to services and supports from the state except to the extent that services and supports are necessarily attached to deprivation of liberty by placement in facilities operated by the department. Implementation of any service or support at state expense under this title is subject to the availability of funds appropriated for that purpose in the general appropriations act.   While the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities is charged with the planning and development of services for persons with developmental disabilities, such services shall be subject to the availability of funding, and to approval of any waiver amendments which would be required to effectuate such new programs at such time that they are developed. The reassignment of responsibility for developmental disabilities services to the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities does not create an entitlement to services for persons with developmental disabilities. Nor does it expand or affect in any way the population of persons who are currently eligible for programs and services currently available to persons with mental retardation.
TN Code § 33-1-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 3 - General Powers and Duties of Department|§ 33-1-301. Powers of Department — Contracts — Property and Monetary Grants — Pilot Programs

  The department is empowered to enter into contractual agreements in furtherance of its functions.   The department may accept grants and gifts of funds and other property of whatever kind from any source, administer the same according to the terms of the grants or gifts, and enter cooperative programs with private and public instrumentalities, including the federal government, to improve mental health and developmental disabilities services and supports in the state.   The department may enter into contracts with other states, or political subdivisions, or corporations chartered in other states, for the purpose of providing preventive and treatment services and supports for service recipients by establishing or supporting various facilities in cooperation with the political or corporate bodies.   The department may establish or review pilot projects, including, but not limited to, projects to provide, develop, or plan service and support for its service recipients or their families through direct administration or through contracting with service providers. Pilot projects are subject to other state and federal laws.   The department of finance and administration shall furnish to the department sufficient space for the department to carry out the department's duties efficiently.
TN Code § 33-1-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 3 - General Powers and Duties of Department|§ 33-1-302. Other Powers of Department — Power to Make Grants and Contracts — Cooperative Programs — Rulemaking — Operation of Facilities

  The department may:  Make grants and contracts under terms and conditions that the commissioner prescribes to any county, city, or profit or nonprofit corporation or any combination of them for the construction, maintenance or operation of facilities, programs, or an array of high quality prevention, early intervention, treatment, and habilitation services and supports for service recipients and their families;   Enter into cooperative programs for the construction, maintenance or operation of facilities, programs or services to provide care, habilitation and treatment for service recipients;   Make and enforce rules that are necessary for the efficient financial management and lawful operation of the facilities, programs or services;   Construct, maintain and operate the facilities, programs or services; and   With the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration and the comptroller of the treasury, establish or cause to be established revolving loan fund programs to assist recipients of publicly funded services under this title to acquire or maintain affordable housing.      Each governing body of the facility, program, or service shall have an annual audit made of its accounts and records. The comptroller of the treasury, through the department of audit, shall be responsible for ensuring that the audits are prepared in accordance with generally accepted governmental auditing standards and determining if the audits meet minimum audit standards that shall be prescribed by the comptroller of the treasury. No audit may be accepted as meeting the requirements of this subsection (b) until the audit has been approved by the comptroller of the treasury. The audits may be prepared by the department of audit, or with the prior written approval of the comptroller, by a licensed independent public accountant.   All audits performed by the internal audit staff of the facility, program, or service shall be conducted in conformity with the standards established by the comptroller of the treasury under § 4-3-304(9).
TN Code § 33-1-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 3 - General Powers and Duties of Department|§ 33-1-303. Powers of Commissioner

 The commissioner may:   Select and recommend to the appropriate state officials the employment of the chief officers of all facilities of the department, all central office personnel, and all professional, technical and other personnel required for the operation of the department;   Recommend to the appropriate state officials the salaries and compensation of all officers and employees of the department;   Adopt rules and policies for the governance, management, and supervision of the department's facilities; prescribe the powers and duties of officers and employees; and provide for admission, discharge, treatment, habilitation, and support of persons with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disabilities;   Publish a report on the operation of the department and the facilities and programs under its supervision and the department's three-year plan; furnish the report and plan to the governor and members of the general assembly; and further distribute them as the commissioner, with the approval of the governor, may consider proper;   Publish compilations of this title and other relevant statutes to improve public knowledge of the laws by compiling them separately for services to children and adults and mental health and developmental disabilities service recipients and make the compilations available in print and on the Internet;   Prescribe and distribute the forms to be used in connection with the admission, hospitalization or release of service recipients in the department's facilities;   Alter the department's facilities and grounds and name them;   Order the transfer of service recipients between state facilities;   Procure insurance to indemnify full-time or part-time physicians, licensed psychologists designated as health service providers, and non-physician chief officers of all facilities of the department against actions by service recipients and others that are alleged to arise out of acts of omission or commission of those personnel;   Delegate responsibilities as the commissioner deems necessary for the effective conduct of the functions of the department; and   Assume general responsibility for the proper and efficient operation of the department, its facilities, services and supports.
TN Code § 33-1-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 3 - General Powers and Duties of Department|§ 33-1-304. Duties of Commissioner

 The commissioner shall:   Based on best practice and research, assess the needs of service recipients and potential service recipients throughout the state, plan for a system to meet the needs, set standards for services and supports for service recipients, promote the development of services and supports for service recipients in a community-based, family-oriented system, perform the department's duties, and achieve the department's goals;   Collaborate with all relevant state agencies to coordinate the administration of state programs and policies that directly affect service recipients with respect to treatment, habilitation and education;   Advise the governor, general assembly, state, local, and private agencies, and the public in matters affecting service recipients, and advocate meeting their needs; and   Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, assist the council on children's mental health care in developing a plan that will establish demonstration sites in certain geographic areas where children's mental health care is child-centered, family-driven, and culturally and linguistically competent and that provides a coordinated system of care for children's mental health needs in this state.    The costs and benefits of implementing the pilot program;   The number of people the pilot program could expect to serve;   Approaches taken by other states to address prison diversion and prison transition issues where mental health and substance abuse services are involved;   Best practices for this type of pilot program;   Prospects for and barriers to potential expansion of the pilot programstatewide; and   Potential federal funding sources to support the pilot program.
TN Code § 33-1-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 3 - General Powers and Duties of Department|§ 33-1-305. Power of Commissioner to Adopt Rules, Prescribe Forms and Investigate Complaints

 The commissioner may:   Adopt rules necessary to fulfill the department's responsibilities;   Prescribe the form of applications, records, reports and certificates provided for in this title and the information that forms shall contain; and   Investigate complaints by a service recipient or anyone on behalf of a service recipient.
TN Code § 33-1-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 3 - General Powers and Duties of Department|§ 33-1-306. Designation of Administrative Law Judges or Hearing Officers

 The commissioner may designate employees as administrative law judges or hearing officers to conduct contested case hearings when cases are required to be held under the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, for admission review hearings for admission to department facilities.
TN Code § 33-1-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 3 - General Powers and Duties of Department|§ 33-1-307. Departmental Information Systems

 The department shall establish a structured information system to gather all data necessary to carry out its duties with respect to planning, needs assessment, standard setting, evaluation, and promotion of the development of services and supports for the service recipient population, including persons who may become service recipients. The department shall design the system to avoid duplication of information gathering by other public agencies and to minimize acquisition of personally identifiable service recipient information. All public and private providers who serve persons with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disabilities, regardless of whether the provider is licensed under this title or other titles of the code or is unlicensed, shall provide the information required for the information system in a way consistent with this title and other laws.
TN Code § 33-1-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 3 - General Powers and Duties of Department|§ 33-1-308. Interagency Agreements

   The commissioner shall initiate the development of and enter into interagency agreements on services and supports for children in coordination with the council on children's mental health care, adults, and the elderly to:  Assure accountability for services and supports across all agencies providing services and supports for a person or family whose service is covered by this title;   Clarify responsibilities for the department's service system;   Promote problem resolution at the local levels;   Promote interagency service needs assessment and planning;   Provide a vehicle for interagency policy development without interfering with agency independence;   Promote creation and maintenance of coordinated service systems for service recipients and families;   Provide for interrelated service planning across agency lines;   Promote inclusion of mental health and developmental disabilities issues in crisis and disaster planning; and   Enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of expenditure of public funds.     All state agencies shall cooperate with the department in the development of the agreements.     The agreements shall include, without limitation: the intersection of services and supports among all state agencies that have any responsibility for mental health, developmental disabilities, alcohol dependence, drug dependence, education, health, social services, housing, transportation, employment, justice, habilitation, rehabilitation, correction, or public funding of services and supports; transition between services to different age groups; information sharing, including records, data, and service; and interagency training.   Interagency agreements should include at least the following elements:  Goals and the expected outcomes against which progress will be measured;   Eligible populations;   Role responsibilities;   Covered services and supports;   Procedures for coordination, including local level implementation procedures;   Joint monitoring;   Data sharing; and   How conflict resolution will be achieved.     The commissioner may initiate the development of and enter into similar interagency agreements with local government agencies.
TN Code § 33-1-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 3 - General Powers and Duties of Department|§ 33-1-310. Power to Assume Temporary Control of Facility in Event of Emergency

 If the department determines that an emergency substantially impairs a service provider agency's capacity to provide service to its service recipients and jeopardizes the health or safety of its service recipients, the department may assume temporary operating responsibility for the agency to assure continuity of care and the health and safety of the service recipients.
TN Code § 33-1-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 3 - General Powers and Duties of Department|§ 33-1-311. Development of Interagency Projects and Programs

 The department shall involve the council on children's mental health care in the development of interagency projects and programs, whether state or federally funded, related to children's mental health care, except where otherwise prohibited by state or federal law.
TN Code § 33-1-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Part 4 - Statewide Planning and Policy Council|§ 33-1-401. Statewide Planning and Policy Council Created — Chair — Officers — Membership — Expenses — Meetings — Terms of Service — Removal

  There is created the statewide planning and policy council for the department of mental health and substance abuse services to assist in planning a comprehensive array of high quality prevention, early intervention, treatment, and habilitation services and supports and to advise the department on policy, budget requests, and developing and evaluating services and supports.    The statewide planning and policy council shall be composed of not less than eleven (11) members, not including ex officio members. The governor shall appoint the chair of the council. The speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall each appoint one (1) legislator as a member of the council. The commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services shall serve, ex officio, as secretary to the council and, if the chair is not present at a meeting, shall designate a member to serve as chair for the meeting. The governor is ex officio a member of the council and may appoint representatives of state agencies as ex officio members of the council.   The commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services shall appoint five (5) members to represent mental health, of which, two (2) shall be service recipients or members of families of service recipients, one (1) shall be a representative for children, one (1) shall be a mental health service provider, and one (1) shall represent others affected by mental health issues. Additionally, the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services shall appoint one (1) representative for elderly service recipients, one (1) representative for military veteran recipients, and at least one (1) at-large representative. The commissioner may make additional appointments of advocates to represent children and persons affected by substance abuse.   At least a majority of the council's membership shall consist of current or former service recipients and members of service recipient families.     The members of the statewide planning and policy council shall receive no compensation, but shall receive their actual traveling expenses for attendance at meetings of the council. All reimbursement for travel expenses shall be in conformity with the comprehensive travel rules.   The statewide planning and policy council shall meet quarterly at a place designated by the chair and may meet more often upon the call of the chair or a majority of the members.   Terms on the council shall be three (3) years except that the chair and members appointed by the speakers shall have terms of two (2) years. Vacancies of the council shall be filled by appointment for unexpired terms only.   The appointing authority may remove a member for failure to attend at least one half (½) of the scheduled meetings in any one (1) year period or for other good cause.