BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 2-6-601(a), is amended by deleting the language "any licensed nursing home, home for the aged or similar licensed institution providing relatively permanent domiciliary care, other than a penal institution" each time it appears and substituting instead the language "a nursing home", and by deleting the language "the licensed nursing homes" and substituting instead the language "the nursing homes".
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 2-6-601(b), is amended by deleting the language "licensed nursing home, assisted care living facility, home for the aged, or similar licensed institution providing relatively permanent domiciliary care" and substituting instead the language "nursing home".
SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 2-6-601, is amended by adding the following as a new subsection:
(c) As used in this part, "nursing home" means a licensed nursing home, assisted care living facility, or home for the aged, other than a penal institution, and includes any independent living facility on the same property as a licensed nursing home, assisted care living facility, or home for the aged.
SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
PASSED: April 5, 2021
APPROVED this 22nd day of April 2021