{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-33-8-302","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 33-8-302","heading":"Electroconvulsive therapy - When authorized for child with mania or severe depression","body":"IF AND ONLY IF (1) a child has mania or severe depression, AND (2) (A) all other accepted methods of therapy have been exhausted, OR (B) electroconvulsive or other convulsive therapy is necessary to save the child's life due to potential suicide, or to prevent irreparable injury resulting from conditions such as starvation, dehydration, or physical exhaustion bordering on serious collapse to the extent the conditions are life threatening, AND (3) the service provider to perform the therapy has convened a multi-disciplinary review team of at least five (5) persons, at least one (1) of whom is independent of the service provider, AND (4) the multi-disciplinary review team has approved the electroconvulsive or other convulsive therapy, AND (5) an American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology certified psychiatrist, who is child and adolescent certified, approves the therapy, THEN (6) the approved convulsive therapy may be necessary for the child for purposes of this part. Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1.\nIF AND ONLY IF\n(1) a child has mania or severe depression, AND\n(2) (A) all other accepted methods of therapy have been exhausted, OR (B) electroconvulsive or other convulsive therapy is necessary to save the child's life due to potential suicide, or to prevent irreparable injury resulting from conditions such as starvation, dehydration, or physical exhaustion bordering on serious collapse to the extent the conditions are life threatening, AND\n(A) all other accepted methods of therapy have been exhausted, OR\n(B) electroconvulsive or other convulsive therapy is necessary to save the child's life due to potential suicide, or to prevent irreparable injury resulting from conditions such as starvation, dehydration, or physical exhaustion bordering on serious collapse to the extent the conditions are life threatening, AND\n(3) the service provider to perform the therapy has convened a multi-disciplinary review team of at least five (5) persons, at least one (1) of whom is independent of the service provider, AND\n(4) the multi-disciplinary review team has approved the electroconvulsive or other convulsive therapy, AND\n(5) an American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology certified psychiatrist, who is child and adolescent certified, approves the therapy, THEN\nTHEN\n(6) the approved convulsive therapy may be necessary for the child for purposes of this part.","path":["TN Code","Title 33","Chapter 8"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"0137f502d125c128965d7975baabdcdd80a66937cb236682c175bc214ddf06c0","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-33-8-301","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-33-8-303","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}