Text of TN SB 126 (2021)
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to treatment for children.
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SENATE BILL 126
By Haile
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8;
Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71,
relative to treatment for children.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-7-102(12)(A), is amended by
deleting the language "six (6) hours of training" and substituting the language "seven (7) hours
of training".
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
As enrolled or final
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Stnie ef J ennessee
PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 460
SENATE BILL NO. 126
By Haile, Pody, Stevens
Substituted for: House Bill No. 1027
By Kumar, Cochran, Zachary, Hazlewood, Carr, Smith, Powers, White, Moody
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title
71, relative to treatment for children.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1, is amended by adding
the following as a new section:
(a) As used in this section:
(1) "Healthcare prescriber" means an individual licensed under this title and
authorized to prescribe medications;
(2) "Minor" means a person who is less than eighteen (18) years of age; and
(3) "Prepubertal minor" means a minor in Tanner stage 1 development.
(b) Standard medical practice does not involve prescribing hormone treatment for
gender dysphoric or gender incongruent prepubertal minors. Except as provided in
subsection (c), a healthcare prescriber shall not prescribe a course of treatment that involves
hormone treatment for gender dysphoric or gender incongruent prepubertal minors.
(c) A healthcare prescriber may prescribe a course of treatment that involves
hormone treatments for prepubertal minors for diagnoses of growth deficiencies or other
diagnoses unrelated to gender dysphoria or gender incongruency.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
PASSED:
SENATE BILL NO.
126
May 3, 2021
RANDY McNALL Y
SPEAKER OF THE SENA TE
CAMERON SEXTON, SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APPROVED this ~day of vYa,y
2021
BILL LEE, GOVERNOR