Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

ON APRIL 11, 2024, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2299, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, relative to law regulating health facilities and resources: (1) Define a "home care organization" to mean an organization that provides home health services, home medical equipment services, professional support services, or hospice services to one or more patients on an outpatient basis in either the patient's regular or temporary place of residence. A provider is operating a home care organization if the provider does the following: (A) Holds itself out to the public as providing home health services, home medical equipment services, or hospice services; (B) Contracts or agrees to deliver home health services, home medical equipment services, or hospice services; (C) Accepts physician orders for home health services, home medical equipment services, or hospice services; (D) Accepts responsibility for the delivery of home health services, home medical equipment services, or hospice services; or (E) Contracts to provide professional support services with the state agency financially responsible for services to individuals with mental, intellectual, or developmental disabilities; and (2) Establish that the absence of one or more of the factors in (1) above does not necessarily exclude the provider from the meaning of the definition.