Tennessee SB 2364: TennCare - As enacted, excludes anxiety episodes and nonemergent depression episodes from episodes of care in any payment reform initiative involved with medical assistance. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 662
SENATE BILL NO. 2364
By Rose, Bailey, Bowling, Stevens
Substituted for: House Bill No. 2077
By Faison
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 21, relative to the attorney general
and reporter.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-21-1201(a), is amended by adding the
following as a new subdivision:
(5) All rules transferred from the commission to the attorney general pursuant to§ 4-
5-226(b)(2) are repealed.
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-21-205(9), is amended by deleting the
subsection and substituting:
(g)(1) Unless otherwise ordered by the court for good cause shown, complaints filed
with the attorney general and all documentary material or other information obtained
by the attorney general pursuant to an investigation under this chapter must not be
produced for inspection, copied by, or its contents disclosed to, a person other than
an authorized representative of the attorney general for the purpose of investigation
or prosecution without the consent of the person who produced the material or
information, except that documentary material obtained by the attorney general
pursuant to this section may be provided to the complainant, the respondent, their
attorneys, or any state or federal law enforcement agency seeking to enforce anti-
discrimination statutes.
(2) The attorney general may use copies of the documentary material or
information produced in accordance with this section as it determines necessary in
the enforcement of this part, including the presentation of such material or information
before a court.
(3) All other documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, and
transcripts of oral testimony that are voluntarily provided to the attorney general as
part of an investigation under this section must be treated as if such information was
obtained pursuant to a request issued under this section if such materials were
obtained pursuant to an investigative demand or similar process issued by another
state or federal attorney general, obtained from a state or federal attorney general
pursuant to a statutory obligation to produce such information, or provided by a
person with information relevant to the subject matter of the investigation.
SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-21-302(b)(3)(F), is amended by deleting
the language "commission" and substituting "attorney general".
SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-21-303(d), is amended by deleting:
The conciliation agreement must not be made public without the agreement of the
complainant and the respondent, and the determination by the attorney general that
disclosure is not required to further this chapter.

SB 2364
SECTION 5. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
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PASSED:
SENATE BILL NO. 2364
March 19, 2026
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SPEAKER OF THE SE ~J.J.
CAMERON~XTON,SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APPROVED this I SI- day of f\-prj I 2026
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BILL LEE, GOVERNOR