Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

ON APRIL 11, 2024, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 827, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, do the following: (1) Requires the department of health ("department") to establish and integrate into the department's healthcare resource tracking system a psychiatric bed tracking system. The department must ensure that the psychiatric bed tracking system is capable of accepting data from hospitals; (2) Requires the department to make publicly available on the department's website an electronic data dashboard that displays updated hospital bed data from the psychiatric bed tracking system; and (3) Establishes the meanings of the following terms relative to the bill: (A) "Adolescent beds" means the number of currently available, staffed psychiatric beds ready for admission to individuals who are under 18; (B) "Adult beds" means the number of currently available, staffed psychiatric beds ready for admission to individuals who are at least 18 but less than 60; and (C) "Geriatric beds" means the number of currently available, staffed psychiatric beds ready for admission to individuals who are 60 or older.