---
type: "Bill"
title: "Athletic Trainers - As enacted, authorizes athletic trainers to use dry needling to carry out the practice of prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition, treatment, or rehabilitation of athletic injuries; requires the board of athletic trainers to establish minimum competency requirements for an athletic trainer to demonstrate in order to practice dry needling. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63."
description: "Athletic Trainers - As enacted, authorizes athletic trainers to use dry needling to carry out the practice of prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition, treatment, or rehabilitation of athletic injuries; requires the board of athletic trainers to establish minimum competency requirements for an athletic trainer to demonstrate in order to practice dry needling. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "114"
identifier: "HB 62"
citation: "Tennessee HB 62 (114)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Athletic Trainers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cepicky"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce38230f-885c-4921-ab47-1cbd91dc1552"
source_url: "https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=HB0062&ga=114"
source_hash: "d3f4ac2b175bf7769ef8f62bfda06f2c648dbd4ade9ec57499c5743a0fabb9df"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tn"]
---

# Tennessee HB 62 (114) — Athletic Trainers - As enacted, authorizes athletic trainers to use dry needling to carry out the practice of prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition, treatment, or rehabilitation of athletic injuries; requires the board of athletic trainers to establish minimum competency requirements for an athletic trainer to demonstrate in order to practice dry needling. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment HA0015** (committee substitute) — [source](https://capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Amend/HA0015.pdf)
2. **Amendment SA0106** (committee substitute) — [source](https://capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Amend/SA0106.pdf)
3. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/HB0062.pdf)

## Votes

- HOUSE HEALTH COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee 2/25/2025 Passed — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- HOUSE HEALTH SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Health Committee 2/19/2025 Passed — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- HOUSE CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: Re-ref. Government Operations Committee 2/27/2025 — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR AS AMENDED PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 3/10/2025 Passed (1) — **93–2** (pass) · lower
- FLOOR VOTE: Third Consideration 3/17/2025 Passed (1) — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- HOUSE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee 3/3/2025 Passed — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- HOUSE CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 3/10/2025 3/6/2025 (2) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cepicky — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-06** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-01-14** Intro., P1C. `introduction`
- **2025-01-15** P2C held on desk, pending appointment of Standing Committees
- **2025-01-16** Ref. to Health Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Placed on s/c cal Health Subcommittee for 2/19/2025
- **2025-02-19** Placed on cal. Health Committee for 2/25/2025
- **2025-02-19** Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Health Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26** Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 2/27/2025
- **2025-02-27** Re-ref. Government Operations Committee
- **2025-02-28** Placed on cal. Government Operations Committee for 3/3/2025
- **2025-03-03** Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05** Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 3/6/2025
- **2025-03-06** H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 3/10/2025
- **2025-03-10** Passed H., as am., Ayes 93, Nays 2, PNV 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-10** H. adopted am. (Amendment 1 - HA0015) `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-11** Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen. `receipt`
- **2025-03-13** Received from House, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2025-03-17** Passed Senate, Ayes 31, Nays 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Amendment withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - SA0106)
- **2025-03-17** Senate substituted House Bill for companion Senate Bill. `substitution`
- **2025-03-19** Signed by Senate Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-19** Signed by H. Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-19** Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker. `enrolled`
- **2025-03-20** Transmitted to Governor for his action. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-28** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-08** Effective date(s) 03/28/2025, 09/01/2025
- **2025-04-08** Pub. Ch. 76

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce38230f-885c-4921-ab47-1cbd91dc1552`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).