Tennessee House of Representatives 112th House Local Government Committee, 15 Feb 2022

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From YouTube: House - Cities & Counties Subcommittee - February 15, 2022

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House Cities & Council Subcommittee House Hearing Room 3

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Today is tuesday february the 15th. I hereby call citizen county subcommittee to order.

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Madam clerk, will you please take the role.

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By sherman coffey uh representative chisholm, chairman crawford here leader again here, chairman helton representative miller, vice chairman wright, chairman moon, uh mr chairman, you have a quorum.

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Thank you, mr clerk. I apologize. I thought someone else was calling a roll. I wouldn't have called you, madam, as you all can see. I am pinch-hitting today for chairman moon. He had a couple bills he had to present, so he is over there presenting bills. We've got two on our calendar today.

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Is there any announcements or personal orders, seeing none we'll jump right into our calendar house bill 2414 by representative smith, got a proper motion in the second on the bill um does see that it's got an amendment yeah thank.

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You, mr chairman, and uh the committee, it's a drafting code, zero, one, three, six, one: two.

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That is correct. That's what I have do. I have a motion on the amendment proper motion in second representative smith. You are recognized on your amended.

C

Thank you, mr chairman and members of the committee. This is this bill impacts only uh municipalities that are self-funded and, in this particular case uh hamilton county, approached our delegation with a situation. That's infrequent but frequent enough that they need to be in compliance. This bill comes allows, self-insured, municipalities to comply with subpoenas or court orders that that seek hipaa related information that may be protected, but there's you have to provide that through court order, but there's not current state law. That would create that framework to allow this to happen.

C

So this is just a permissive bill that allows counties to be in federal compliance to provide hipaa related information when subpoenaed or by court order, and with that, mr chairman I'll, be happy to take uh questions.

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uh So, mr chairman, speaking just of the amendment, the amendment allows to opt out is that all it's.

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Representative smith,.

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Indeed, this is a the the. uh The uh amendment makes it permissive.

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So we do, we have we've got a motion on the we.

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Do have a motion. Second, on the amendment, any more discussion on the amendment, seeing none we're ready to vote on amendment zero, one. Three, six, one two on favor say: aye, those opposed. No. The amendment is now on the bill. Representative smith, you're recognized on house bill 2414, as amended.

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Again, just renewing the the facts: this is a pretty narrow bill. It only impacts about seven counties in the state that are self-insured, and with that, mr chairman, I would just ask for support and renew the motion. Any questions.

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For the sponsor, seeing none we're ready to vote on house bill 2414 as amended all in favor, please say: aye. Those opposed no bill passes and moves on to count local government.

C

Thank you chairman. The committee.

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Without objection, I'm going to let leader gant present from the his seat, uh this is house bill. 2385 do I have a motion, proper motion and second leader, gant you're, recognized on your bill, sir.

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Mr chairman, you're so kind to, let me sit here instead of making me walk all the way around there. So thank you for for your indulgence on that members. What this legislation does is simply just adds insurance producer to the list of professional services that are available to cities and counties.

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uh Some of our, uh as many of you know, I'm in the insurance business as well, and I think that some of um our industry professionals were offended that we didn't have our name correctly in the code. So all we're doing is adding insurance producer. You know to that list of uh professional services that are already listed in the code, so with mr chairman, that's all I have any.

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Questions for the sponsor.

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If there be no objection to the question, we'll go ahead and vote on house bill, 2385 all in favor, please say: aye opposed no leader again your bill moves on to calendar of local government.

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Before we close, is there any personal orders or announcements, seeing none I'll entertain a motion to adjourn so moved with our journey.