HB717 — Controlled Substances - As enacted, makes various changes and additions to law concerning opioids; creates task force with duty to promulgate rules that create a uniform minimum disciplinary action that will apply to any healthcare practitioner who treats a human patient with an opioid and that healthcare practitioner's licensing board or agency finds that the healthcare practitioner engaged in a significant deviation or pattern of deviation from sound medical judgment; requires comptroller to conduct certain studies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

HB717 — Controlled Substances - As enacted, makes various changes and additions to law concerning opioids; creates task force with duty to promulgate rules that create a uniform minimum disciplinary action that will apply to any healthcare practitioner who treats a human patient with an opioid and that healthcare practitioner's licensing board or agency finds that the healthcare practitioner engaged in a significant deviation or pattern of deviation from sound medical judgment; requires comptroller to conduct certain studies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. · Informed CitizenryHB717 amends several titles of the Tennessee Code Annotated regarding substance abuse. The bill requires the commissioner of health to report to the house health committee and the senate health and…Open in Informed Citizenry