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type: "Bill"
title: "Controlled Substances - As enacted, makes various changes and additions to law concerning opioids; creates task force with duty to promulgate rules that create a uniform minimum disciplinary action that will apply to any healthcare practitioner who treats a human patient with an opioid and that healthcare practitioner's licensing board or agency finds that the healthcare practitioner engaged in a significant deviation or pattern of deviation from sound medical judgment; requires comptroller to conduct certain studies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71."
description: "Controlled Substances - As enacted, makes various changes and additions to law concerning opioids; creates task force with duty to promulgate rules that create a uniform minimum disciplinary action that will apply to any healthcare practitioner who treats a human patient with an opioid and that healthcare practitioner's licensing board or agency finds that the healthcare practitioner engaged in a significant deviation or pattern of deviation from sound medical judgment; requires comptroller to conduct certain studies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "110"
identifier: "HB 717"
citation: "Tennessee HB 717 (110)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Controlled Substances"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson", "Johnson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 63
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-08"
last_action: "2018-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12ad2581-e70a-4e53-a6e0-b13579549174"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0717&GA=110"
source_hash: "5c78f360a300148783d4af16517db353c44a39d16c97e43d522d5d344fb8fb6a"
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 717 (110) — Controlled Substances - As enacted, makes various changes and additions to law concerning opioids; creates task force with duty to promulgate rules that create a uniform minimum disciplinary action that will apply to any healthcare practitioner who treats a human patient with an opioid and that healthcare practitioner's licensing board or agency finds that the healthcare practitioner engaged in a significant deviation or pattern of deviation from sound medical judgment; requires comptroller to conduct certain studies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; 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.
1. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/110/Bill/HB0717.pdf)
## Votes
- HEALTH SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Health Committee 3/28/2018 — **00** (fail) · lower
- FINANCE, WAYS & MEANS SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Finance, Ways & Means Committee 4/18/2018 (3) — **00** (pass) · lower
- HEALTH COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Finance, Ways & Means Committee 4/10/2018 — **00** (pass) · lower
- FINANCE, WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee 4/18/2018 (2) — **00** (pass) · lower
- CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/23/2018 4/18/2018 (1) — **00** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jackson — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-08** Filed for intro. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-08** Filed for introduction `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** Intro., P1C. `introduction`
- **2017-02-09** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2017-02-13** P2C, ref. to Health Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
- **2017-02-14** Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/7/2017
- **2017-03-07** Refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
- **2017-03-22** Placed on s/c cal Health Subcommittee for 3/29/2017
- **2017-03-27** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-29** Placed on s/c cal Health Subcommittee for 4/5/2017
- **2017-03-29** Action Def. in s/c Health Subcommittee to 4/5/2017
- **2017-03-29** Placed on Senate Health and Welfare Committee calendar for 4/5/2017
- **2017-04-05** Placed on s/c cal Health Subcommittee for 4/12/2017
- **2017-04-05** Action Def. in s/c Health Subcommittee to 4/12/2017
- **2017-04-05** Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-12** Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
- **2018-03-12** Placed on s/c cal Health Subcommittee for 3/14/2018
- **2018-03-12** Placed on Senate Health and Welfare Committee calendar for 3/14/2018
- **2018-03-12** Rule #83(8) Suspended, to be heard in S. H&W Comm. 3-14-18
- **2018-03-14** Placed on s/c cal Health Subcommittee for 3/21/2018
- **2018-03-14** Action Def. in s/c Health Subcommittee to 3/21/2018
- **2018-03-14** Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee Ayes 7, Nays 1 PNV 0
- **2018-03-21** Placed on s/c cal Health Subcommittee for 3/28/2018
- **2018-03-21** Action Def. in s/c Health Subcommittee to 3/28/2018
- **2018-03-28** Placed on cal. Health Committee for 4/3/2018
- **2018-03-28** Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Health Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-03** Action def. in Health Committee to 4/10/2018
- **2018-04-04** Placed on cal. Health Committee for 4/10/2018
- **2018-04-10** Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee for 4/11/2018
- **2018-04-10** Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-10** Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Finance, Ways & Means Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-11** Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee for 4/18/2018
- **2018-04-11** Placed behind the budget
- **2018-04-13** Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/17/2018
- **2018-04-17** Action deferred in Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee to 4/18/2018
- **2018-04-18** H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/23/2018
- **2018-04-18** Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/18/2018
- **2018-04-18** Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-18** Placed on cal. Finance, Ways & Means Committee for 4/18/2018
- **2018-04-18** Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Finance, Ways & Means Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-18** Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 10, Nays 0 PNV 0
- **2018-04-18** Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/18/2018
- **2018-04-19** Placed on Senate Regular Calendar calendar for 4/23/2018
- **2018-04-23** Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
- **2018-04-23** Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 30, Nays 0, PNV 1 `passage`
- **2018-04-23** Amendment withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - SA0811)
- **2018-04-23** Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 2 - SA1146)
- **2018-04-24** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2018-04-24** Comp. SB subst.
- **2018-04-24** Passed H., Ayes 83, Nays 1, PNV 0 `passage`
- **2018-04-24** Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - HA1188) `amendment-withdrawal`
- **2018-04-24** Subst. for comp. HB.
- **2018-04-25** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2018-04-30** Enrolled and ready for signatures
- **2018-05-01** Signed by Senate Speaker
- **2018-05-08** Signed by H. Speaker
- **2018-05-09** Transmitted to Governor for action.
- **2018-05-21** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-23** Comp. became Pub. Ch. 978
- **2018-05-23** Pub. Ch. 978
- **2018-05-23** Effective date(s) 05/21/2018; 07/01/2018
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12ad2581-e70a-4e53-a6e0-b13579549174`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).