Tennessee · 114 session · senate
SB 1681Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, prohibits a hospital emergency department, including a satellite emergency department, from denying to a woman who presents at such facility and purports or, if incapacitated, appears to be pregnant and experiencing active labor, other symptoms associated with active labor, or an emergency medical condition, an appropriate medical screening examination within the capability of the emergency department, including ancillary services routinely available to the emergency department, to determine whether or not an emergency medical condition or active labor exists; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
- Status
- Signed into law
- Latest action
- — Effective date(s) 07/01/2026
- Primary sponsor
- Lamar
- Hospitals and Health Care Facilities
Sponsors
- Lamar · primaryprimary