Tennessee § 68-29-116 Licenses required for medical laboratory personnel - Supervision of employees

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§ 68-29-116 — Licenses required for medical laboratory personnel - Supervision of employees

Tennessee § 68-29-116

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Bluebook

Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-29-116 (2026).

Text

(a)No person shall act as a medical laboratory director, supervisor, technologist, technician, laboratory trainee or special analyst and accept a specimen for laboratory examination, unless such person has obtained a license and is registered to act in such capacity by the board; provided, that this section shall not apply to pathologists certified or eligible for certification by the American Board of Pathology, or any other person recognized by the board as having special qualifications and who is duly licensed and registered to practice medicine in the state of Tennessee.

(b)Persons who collect specimens or report the results of an examination shall be under the supervision of a licensed medical laboratory director, medical laboratory supervisor, or medical laboratory technologist or

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(a) No person shall act as a medical laboratory director, supervisor, technologist, technician, laboratory trainee or special analyst and accept a specimen for laboratory examination, unless such person has obtained a license and is registered to act in such capacity by the board; provided, that this section shall not apply to pathologists certified or eligible for certification by the American Board of Pathology, or any other person recognized by the board as having special qualifications and who is duly licensed and registered to practice medicine in the state of Tennessee. (b) Persons who collect specimens or report the results of an examination shall be under the supervision of a licensed medical laboratory director, medical laboratory supervisor, or medical laboratory technologist or other persons so designated by the regulations promulgated under authority of this chapter. (c) Medical laboratory directors may monitor medical laboratory personnel remotely.

Legislative History

Amended by 2021 Tenn. Acts, ch. 495, s 2, eff. 5/25/2021. Acts 1967, ch. 355, § 16; 1973, ch. 141, § 5; 1975, ch. 365, § 5; 1980, ch. 475, § 4; T.C.A., § 53-4116; Acts 1989, ch. 467, § 12.