Tennessee Senate bill in Session 114.
Status: enacted. Latest action: April 4, 2025.
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 1; Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 20; Title 22; Title 24; Title 31; Title 33; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 71, relative to electronic transmissions.
ON FEBRUARY 24, 2025, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 321, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 removes the provision that would have changed "faxed"" and ""fax"" to ""electronically transmitted"" in present law that provides that a pharmacist who receives a written, oral, or faxed prescription is not required to verify with the health care prescriber that the prescription properly falls under one of the exceptions from the requirement to electronically prescribe and that p harmacists may continue to dispense medications from otherwise valid written, oral, or fax prescriptions that are consis tent with prescription requirements for scheduled drugs."
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-22 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-03-28 | Status | enacted |
| 2025-04-04 | Latest Action | Effective date(s) 01/01/2026 |