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Health subcommittee advances wide slate of bills on school safety, pharmacy authority, adult services and genomic protections
Summary
On Feb. 19, 2019, the House Health Subcommittee advanced a bundle of bills to the full Health Committee, mostly by unanimous votes. Items included measures to allow schools to stock emergency inhalers, expand pharmacists' ability to provide care and adjust eligibility and naming conventions for adult day services and ABLE accounts; the panel also
NASHVILLE — The House Health Subcommittee on Feb. 19 advanced a series of health-related bills to the full House Health Committee, approving most measures unanimously. The panel took up a wide-ranging agenda that included school safety, first-responder care in schools, pharmacy authority and measures touching genomics and organ-harvesting prohibitions.
The committee advanced the following bills and resolutions (votes and short descriptions below):
Votes at a glance
- House Bill 106 (amendment added, drafting code 003599): Administration bill clarifying childcare code to create exemptions for gym-based child drop-off, professional sports teams and YMCAs; moved to Health Full Committee, 9-0.
- House Bill 760: Allows schools to maintain an emergency stock of inhalers for students who are undiagnosed or forget an inhaler; sponsor said "approximately 10 percent of children suffer from asthma." Moved to Health Full Committee, 9-0.
- House Bill 496: Raises the disability-onset age for ABLE accounts from 26 to 46 to keep Tennessee aligned with federal…
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