Public Health - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days a licensing board has to respond to the department of health after the department has inquired about the status of an action or lack of action taken against a prescriber whose prescribing patterns of controlled substances have been identified as representing a statistical outlier, or if the prescriber is identified as a top prescriber or a high-risk prescriber. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Introduced by Brock Martin and 1 co-sponsor

HB 398 extends Tennessee licensing boards' response deadline to state health inquiries about high-risk controlled substance prescribers from 30 to 45 days, potentially slowing enforcement action against problematic prescribing patterns.

Comp. SB subst.

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