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- Jurisdiction
- Tennessee
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 58-2-107(e)
- Issued
- 2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-19
- End
- 12:01 a.m. May 18, 2020 (¶ 41); superseded EO 14 (¶ 42); replaced by EO 36 (read as 2020-05-18)
- In force
- Mar. 19, 2020 to May 18, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationHealth care ordersCourts and public officesSupply chainOther
- Addressees
- health care professionals and facilities
- pharmacies
- laboratories
- carriers
- insurers
- Department of Safety
- licensing boards
- employers (unemployment provisions)
- Functions reached
- HC licensing, telehealth and laboratory operations
- WF unemployment provisions (¶¶ 16-17)
- CRT driver-license and permit expirations extended (¶¶ 22-27)
- OF notarization and filing deadlines
- Collection
- Tennessee TN
Operative words
¶ 2: The relevant provisions of Tennessee Code Annotated, Titles 63 and 68... are hereby suspended to the extent necessary to give the Commissioner of Health the discretion to allow a health care professional who is licensed in another state... to engage in the practice of such individual's profession in Tennessee...; ¶ 23: The provisions of Tennessee Code Annotated, Sections 55-50-336 and 55-50-337 [driver license expirations]... suspended...; ¶ 38: Health insurance carriers are urged to provide coverage for the delivery of clinically appropriate... telemedicine...
Enforcement
Tenn. Code Ann. § 58-2-120
Notes
Forty-two paragraphs of regulatory suspensions: health-care licensure, telemedicine (¶ 38), driver licenses (¶ 23), building-plan review (¶ 28), unemployment (¶¶ 16-17), price gouging extended (¶ 13), oversize loads (¶ 14), hours-of-service (¶ 15)
Retrieval noteAmended by EO 19 (Mar. 24), 20 (Mar. 26), 24 (Apr. 3), 28 (Apr. 17) and 32 (May 1, 2020), which added telemedicine, licensing and deadline provisions (not saved as exhibits; all on the Secretary of State's site under the same URL pattern).