Tennessee legislation · 114th General Assembly
Tennessee SB2431: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to health facility regulation.
Status: Chaptered, May 27, 2026
Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary ON APRIL 21, 2026, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2431, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, require the commissioner of health ("commissioner") to prescribe conditions under which processed and verified claims data found on the UB-92 form are made available to the public, and to establish policies for the release of HIPAA-compliant limited use data sets. Present law requires a licensed hospital to report all claims data found on the UB-92 form or a successor form on every inpatient and outpatient discharge to the commissioner. The policies prescribed by the commissioner must include policies for providing data for certificate of need applicant to the health facilities commission. Present law requires licensed ambulatory surgical treatment centers (ASTCs), licensed birthing centers, and licensed outpatient diagnostic centers (ODC) to report all claims data found on the appropriate form on every discharge to the commissioner. ASTCs, birthing centers, and ODCs must file joint annual reports as required by the department of health through third party entities approved by the department of health for the purpose of editing the data according to rules and regulations established by the commissioner. This amendment requires the commissioner to prescribe conditions under which the processed and verified data are available to the public, and to establish policies for the release of HIPAA-compliant limited use data sets, including providing data for certificate of need applicants to the health facilities commission. HEALTH FACILITIES COMMISSION Critical Access Hospitals This amendment authorizes the health facilities commission ("commission") to determine eligibility for a licensed hospital for designation as a critical access hospital under the
What the bill says
From the amended text:
Senate Health and Welfare 1 Amendment No. 1 to SB2431 Crowe Signature of Sponsor AMEND S e n ate Bill No. 2431 House Bill No. 2110* by deleting all language after the enacting clause and substituting: SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-1-108(a), is amended by deleting the last sentence of the subsection and substituting: The commissioner shall prescribe conditions under which the processed and verified data are available to the public, and shall establish policies for the release of HIPAAcompliant limited use data sets, including, but not limited to, providing data for certificate of need applicants to the health facilities commission no later than seven (7) days after a request is made by the commission. SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-1-119(a), is amended by deleting the last sentence of the subsection and substituting: The commissioner of health shall prescribe conditions under which the processed and verified data are available to the public, and shall establish policies for the release of HIPAA-compliant limited use data sets, including, but not limited to, providing data for certificate of need applicants to the health facilities commission no later than seven (7) days after a request is made by the commission. SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-11-201, is amended by adding the following as new subdivisions: ( ) "Burn unit" means a …