Tennessee Statutes
§ 52-3-114 — Mental health professionals - Compulsion to testify
Tennessee·Title 52
Notwithstanding any evidentiary privilege, including pursuant to §§ 24-1-207 , 63-11-213 , 63-22-114 , and 63-23-109 , a qualified mental health professional may be compelled to testify:
(1)In judicial proceedings under this title to commit a person with an intellectual disability to treatment, if the qualified mental health professional decides that the person supported is in need of compulsory care and treatment;
(2)In proceedings for which the qualified mental health professional was ordered by the court to examine or train the person supported, if the person supported was advised that communications to the qualified mental health professional would not be privileged; and (3) In judicial, conservatorship, and veterans' guardianship proceedings under title 34.
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Legislative History
Added by 2024 Tenn. Acts, ch. 688,s 2, eff. 7/1/2024.
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§ 52-1-101
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Policy - Values - Service principles§ 52-1-103
Entitlement to services - Funding§ 52-1-104
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Commissioner powers and duties§ 52-1-106
Interagency agreements§ 52-1-107
Adoption of rules§ 52-2-1001
Investigative reports release - Fingerprints§ 52-2-1002
Background checks§ 52-2-1003
Temporary staffing§ 52-2-102
Goals, purposes, and findings§ 52-2-103
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