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| Bill | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, expands the prohibition, from stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer or metastatic blood cancer to any cancer, against a health benefit plan that provides coverage for cancer requiring the use of a step therapy protocol before the health benefit plan provides coverage for an approved prescription drug to an enrollee who has received a diagnosis of cancer. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, expands the prohibition, from stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer or metastatic blood cancer to any cancer, against a health benefit plan that provides coverage for cancer requiring the use of a step therapy protocol before the health benefit plan provides coverage for an approved prescription drug to an enrollee who has received a diagnosis of cancer. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | us/states/tn | Tennessee General Assembly | 114 | HB 1956 | Tennessee HB 1956 (114) |
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1 | 32 | 6 | 2026-01-22 | 2026-05-26 | openstates | ocd-bill/79a82da7-d428-4f5b-bb66-1a21be405934 | https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=HB1956&ga=114 | 052cb05b5d4249af815a3790b0517dec74dab89ebd480ed97925b828f7cb0436 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Tennessee HB 1956 (114) — Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, expands the prohibition, from stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer or metastatic blood cancer to any cancer, against a health benefit plan that provides coverage for cancer requiring the use of a step therapy protocol before the health benefit plan provides coverage for an approved prescription drug to an enrollee who has received a diagnosis of cancer. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Current Version (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- HOUSE CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Consent Calendar 4/2/2026 (2) — 0–0 (fail) · lower
- FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/6/2026 Passed (1) — 90–1 (pass) · lower
- INSURANCE SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Insurance Committee 3/11/2026 Passed (4) — 5–0 (pass) · lower
- FLOOR VOTE: Third Consideration 4/20/2026 Passed (1) — 30–3 (pass) · upper
- HOUSE INSURANCE COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass; ref to Government Operations Committee 3/24/2026 Passed — 17–0 (pass) · lower
- HOUSE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee 3/30/2026 Passed (3) — 11–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Alexander — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-22 Filed for introduction
filing - 2026-02-02 Intro., P1C.
introduction - 2026-02-04 Assigned to s/c Insurance Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2026-02-04 P2C, ref. to Insurance Committee - Government Operations for Review
referral-committee - 2026-02-25 Placed on s/c cal Insurance Subcommittee for 3/4/2026
- 2026-03-04 Placed on s/c cal Insurance Subcommittee for 3/11/2026
- 2026-03-04 Action Def. in s/c Insurance Subcommittee to 3/11/2026
- 2026-03-11 Sponsor(s) Added.
sponsorship - 2026-03-11 Placed on cal. Insurance Committee for 3/17/2026
- 2026-03-11 Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Insurance Committee
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-03-16 Sponsor(s) Added.
sponsorship - 2026-03-17 Action def. in Insurance Committee to 3/24/2026
- 2026-03-18 Placed on cal. Insurance Committee for 3/24/2026
- 2026-03-23 Sponsor(s) Added.
sponsorship - 2026-03-24 Rec. for pass; ref to Government Operations Committee
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-03-25 Placed on cal. Government Operations Committee for 3/30/2026
- 2026-03-30 Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-04-01 Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/2/2026
- 2026-04-02 H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/6/2026
- 2026-04-06 Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen.
receipt - 2026-04-06 Sponsor(s) Added.
sponsorship - 2026-04-06 Passed H., Ayes 90, Nays 1, PNV 4
passage - 2026-04-09 Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
introduction - 2026-04-20 Passed Senate, Ayes 30, Nays 3
passage - 2026-04-20 Senate substituted House Bill for companion Senate Bill.
substitution - 2026-04-23 Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
enrolled - 2026-04-30 Signed by H. Speaker
passage - 2026-05-05 Signed by Senate Speaker
passage - 2026-05-07 Transmitted to Governor for his action.
executive-receipt - 2026-05-19 Signed by Governor.
executive-signature - 2026-05-26 Effective date(s) 01/01/2027
- 2026-05-26 Pub. Ch. 995
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/79a82da7-d428-4f5b-bb66-1a21be405934. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).