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Votes at a glance: House Health Full Committee actions on a package of health bills
Summary
The committee advanced multiple health-related bills on issues including department name cleanups, rare-disease reporting, school inhaler stocks, adult day services terminology, ABLE disability age and calendar referrals; recorded votes and destinations are listed.
The Tennessee House Health Full Committee advanced a set of bills on Thursday covering a range of health topics. Several measures were approved with minimal discussion and will proceed to the next committee or calendar steps. Key items and recorded committee outcomes follow.
Votes at a glance
- House Bill 104 (cleanup: Department of Disability and Aging name and recordkeeping updates) — Committee vote: 21 ayes, 0 nos. Outcome: Moves on to calendar and rules.
- House Joint Resolution 120 (Charcot-Marie-Tooth voluntary reporting system through health records; annual reporting to health committees) — Committee vote: 23 ayes, 0 nos. Outcome: Moves on to calendar and rules.
- House Bill 157 (terminology change from “adult day care” to “adult day services”) — Committee vote: 22 ayes, 0 nos. Outcome: Moves on to calendar and rules.
- House Bill 760 (allows schools to maintain emergency stock of asthma inhalers; amendment assigns Board of Pharmacy rule authority and July 2026 effective date for rulemaking) — Committee vote: 22 ayes, 0 nos. Outcome: Moves on to education.
- House Bill 496 (increases ABLE disability onset age from 26 to 46 to preserve ABLE plan tax-qualification status) — Committee vote: 22 ayes, 0 nos. Outcome: Moves on to finance, ways and means.
- House Bill 104, HJR 120, HB 157, HB 760 and HB 496 were advanced with votes recorded and next steps listed above. Three items were rolled one week without objection at the committee’s opening: House Bills 106, 693 and 395.
Several other bills on today’s agenda received fuller hearings and are covered in separate committee summaries: House Bill 62 (dry needling), House Bill 111 (prenatal syphilis screening), House Bill 657 (removal of public-facing records after recovery), House Bill 572 (maternal education materials), House Bill 386 (safe surrender window), and House Bill 192 (individualized investigational treatments).
