AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63 and Title 68, relative to health care providers.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-13-308(b), is amended by deleting the subsection in its entirety and by substituting instead the following:

(b) Each time any person licensed to practice physical therapy or to act as a physical therapist's assistant treats human ailments by physical therapy, or otherwise, except under written or oral referral of a person who holds a license to practice medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, podiatry, osteopathic medicine or chiropractic, or in the case of a physical therapist assistant under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist, and each time any person practices physical therapy or acts as a physical therapist assistant without meeting all requirements of this part, constitutes a separate offense.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming law, the public welfare requiring it.