Tennessee Senate Bill SB0458

Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

• Introduced: 1/29/25

Caption

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to health care.

Summary

SB0458 is a very narrow statutory amendment to Tennessee Code Annotated section 68-1-303(b). The bill changes the required distribution of an annual report by adding the legislative librarian to the list of recipients. Under current law, the report is sent to the governor; this bill would require it to be sent to the governor, the legislative librarian, and the relevant additional recipient already referenced in the statute. Although the bill is captioned as relating to health care and references multiple titles of the Tennessee Code, the operative change in the text is limited to a single reporting provision. It does not create a new health care program, alter licensing rules, change benefits, or impose new duties on providers or patients beyond the report-distribution requirement.

Impact

The bill would amend Tennessee’s reporting statute in Title 68 by expanding the recipients of an annual report to include the legislative librarian. This is a procedural change affecting state administrative reporting and legislative access to information, rather than a substantive change to health care regulation or public benefits. No other statutes are amended in the operative text, and no direct obligations are imposed on private parties beyond the existing reporting framework.

Sentiment

There is no recorded committee discussion or vote history in the provided materials, so sentiment cannot be measured from debate or roll call data. Based on the text alone, the bill appears noncontroversial and administrative in nature, with a likely neutral or routine reception because it simply adds a legislative recipient to an existing annual report requirement.

Contention

No specific points of contention are documented in the provided record. The only potentially notable issue is that the bill’s caption suggests a broader health care measure, while the actual amendment is limited to report distribution in one section of the code. If any concern were raised, it would most likely involve whether the added reporting recipient is necessary or whether the caption overstates the bill’s substantive scope, but no such objections are shown in the available materials.