republic-os/legislation/us/states/tn/113/hb-1639.md

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Bill	Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, provides that, if an incapacitated or deceased patient has no authorized representative, the patient's next of kin will be treated as an authorized representative for the patient for the purposes of obtaining the patient's hospital records. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.	Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, provides that, if an incapacitated or deceased patient has no authorized representative, the patient's next of kin will be treated as an authorized representative for the patient for the purposes of obtaining the patient's hospital records. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.	us/states/tn	Tennessee General Assembly	113	HB 1639	Tennessee HB 1639 (113)	bill	Hospitals and Health Care Facilities	enacted	Moon	3	25	7	2024-01-05	2024-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/936b9e12-3117-403d-8553-44d5cf86f7b1	http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB1639&GA=113	e77e292a278e14841f9ce120d8525e75e33a8e730887a8a97ff4340bd8c3f6c6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tn

Tennessee HB 1639 (113) — Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, provides that, if an incapacitated or deceased patient has no authorized representative, the patient's next of kin will be treated as an authorized representative for the patient for the purposes of obtaining the patient's hospital records. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment HA0527 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment SA0812 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HOUSE HEALTH SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Health Committee 1/30/2024 — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• HOUSE HEALTH SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Health Committee 1/30/2024 (4) — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• HOUSE CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 2/22/2024 2/15/2024 (2) — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• HOUSE HEALTH COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee 2/7/2024 — 0–0 (pass) · lower
• HOUSE HEALTH COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee 2/7/2024 (3) — 0–0 (pass) · lower
• FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR AS AMENDED PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 2/22/2024 Passed (1) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• FLOOR VOTE: Third Consideration 3/28/2024 Passed (1) — 31–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Moon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-09 Intro., P1C. introduction
• 2024-01-10 Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 P2C, ref. to Health Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Placed on s/c cal Health Subcommittee for 1/30/2024
• 2024-01-30 Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Health Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Placed on cal. Health Committee for 2/7/2024
• 2024-02-07 Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-14 Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 2/15/2024
• 2024-02-15 H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 2/22/2024
• 2024-02-22 Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen. receipt
• 2024-02-22 Passed H., as am., Ayes 94, Nays 0, PNV 0 passage
• 2024-02-22 H. adopted am. (Amendment 1 - HA0527) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-22 Sponsor(s) Added. sponsorship
• 2024-02-26 Received from House, Passed on First Consideration introduction
• 2024-03-28 Passed Senate, Ayes 31, Nays 0 passage
• 2024-03-28 Amendment withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - SA0812)
• 2024-03-28 Senate substituted House Bill for companion Senate Bill. substitution
• 2024-04-02 Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker. enrolled
• 2024-04-04 Signed by H. Speaker passage
• 2024-04-08 Signed by Senate Speaker passage
• 2024-04-10 Transmitted to Governor for his action. executive-receipt
• 2024-04-22 Signed by Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-05-01 Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
• 2024-05-01 Pub. Ch. 739

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/936b9e12-3117-403d-8553-44d5cf86f7b1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).