HOUSE BILL NO. 1012

By Representative Eckles

Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1022

By Senator Ford

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2, relative to Medical Review Committees.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63-6-219(c)(1), is amended by adding the following language at the end of the subdivision:

Such immunity also shall extend to any such entity, committee, or individual listed in this subsection when that entity, committee, or individual provides, or attempts to provide, assistance directly related to and including alcohol or drug counseling and intervention through an impaired professional program, or if none, through a requesting professional society, to any Title 63 licensee, or applicant for license.

SECTION 2. If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.