Board of Pharmacy

Applying for Licensure

Applications and Forms

► Applying for initial licensure from your professional licensing board has become a bit easier.  For the past year, the Department of Health has been working on an online application process that will allow all health care professionals to apply online for an initial license and complete (and update as necessary) a practitioner profile mandatory for certain professions.  The process is user-friendly and convenient and even allows you to pay for your initial application utilizing a credit card, debit card, or e-check.  You will also be able to upload many of the documents required to complete your initial application!  Please go to the initial application link below to begin the online process.

• Pharmacy Tech Ratio Wavier Request Form
• Information concerning reporting for Compounding Facilities
• 2015 Law Books (limited supply)
• Criminal Background Checks
• Expedited Licensure for Military Members
• Declaration of Eligibility Licensure Process - Spouse of Military Member
• Application for Duplicate License  |  (paper application-4302)
• Affidavit of Retirement From Practice in Tennessee (paper application-3460)
• Medical Service Representative Application  |  (paper application-4019)
• Name and Address Change Form  | (paper application-3619)

Pharmacist

► Applying for initial licensure from your professional licensing board has become a bit easier.  For the past year, the Department of Health has been working on an online application process that will allow all health care professionals to apply online for an initial license and complete (and update as necessary) a practitioner profile mandatory for certain professions.  The process is user-friendly and convenient and even allows you to pay for your initial application utilizing a credit card, debit card, or e-check.  You will also be able to upload many of the documents required to complete your initial application!  Please go to the initial application link below to begin the online process.

• New Graduates
• Declaration of Citizenship (paper application-4183)
• Instructions for obtaining a Reciprocal License
• Application for Pharmacist Examination  
• Instructions for Applying to the NAPLEX/MPJE Examination
• Internship Affidavit (paper application-4027)
• Request for Testing Accommodations
• Mandatory Practitioner Profile Questionnaire (paper application-3585)
• Instructions on how to Reinstate a Pharmacist License (paper application-4303)
• Instructions to obtain a Foreign Graduate License
• College Certification Form

Facility License Information

► Applying for initial licensure from your professional licensing board has become a bit easier.  For the past year, the Department of Health has been working on an online application process that will allow all health care professionals to apply online for an initial license and complete (and update as necessary) a practitioner profile mandatory for certain professions.  The process is user-friendly and convenient and even allows you to pay for your initial application utilizing a credit card, debit card, or e-check.  You will also be able to upload many of the documents required to complete your initial application!  Please go to the initial application link below to begin the online process.

• Application to add Modifier

Pharmacy

• Ambulatory Surgery Treatment Center Pharmacy
• Pharmacy Application Form 
  
• Name, Location or Ownership Change Application for Pharmacy Business
• Name, Location, or Ownership Change Automated Dispensing Machine Application Form
• Automated Dispensing Machine Application Form    
  
• Pharmacy Survey
  
• Pharmacist In Charge Statement Form (paper application-4012)
• Bedside Delivery Attestation (paper application-4201)
• Pharmacy Transfer & Closing Instructions
• For a current copy of the Sterile Compounding Gap Analysis, please contact your pharmacist investigator or e-mail pharmacy.health@tn.gov.

Manufacturer/Wholesale/Distributor

• Third-Party Logistics Provider Survey 
  
• Change in Facility Manager (paper application-4229)
  
• Tennessee State Rules for Manufacturer/Wholesale/Distributor
• Manufacturer Application  
• Name, Location or Ownership Change Application for Manufacturer
• Wholesaler/Distributor Application  
• Name, Location or Ownership Change Application for Wholesaler/Distributor
  
• Outsourcing Facility Application 
• Name, Location or Ownership Change Application for Outsourcing Facility
  
• Oxygen Supplier Application  
• Name, Location or Ownership Change Application for Oxygen Supplier
• Manufacturer Survey
• Outsourcing Facility Survey
• Oxygen Supplier Survey
• Wholesale/Distributor Survey
• Third-Party Logistic (3PL)  Application

Pharmacy Technician

► Applying for initial licensure from your professional licensing board has become a bit easier.  For the past year, the Department of Health has been working on an online application process that will allow all health care professionals to apply online for an initial license and complete (and update as necessary) a practitioner profile mandatory for certain professions.  The process is user-friendly and convenient and even allows you to pay for your initial application utilizing a credit card, debit card, or e-check.  You will also be able to upload many of the documents required to complete your initial application!  Please go to the initial application link below to begin the online process.

• Declaration of Citizenship (paper application-4183)
• Pharmacy Technician Application for Registration
• Request to Reapply for Registration as a Pharmacy Technician
• Pharmacy Technician Affidavit (paper application-4013)

Researcher

► Applying for initial licensure from your professional licensing board has become a bit easier.  For the past year, the Department of Health has been working on an online application process that will allow all health care professionals to apply online for an initial license and complete (and update as necessary) a practitioner profile mandatory for certain professions.  The process is user-friendly and convenient and even allows you to pay for your initial application utilizing a credit card, debit card, or e-check.  You will also be able to upload many of the documents required to complete your initial application!  Please go to the initial application link below to begin the online process.

• Application for Researchers  
• Application for Training of Detection Animals  
  
• Declaration of Citizenship (paper application-4183)
  
• Location Change/Reinstatement Application for Researchers
  
• Location Change/Reinstatement Application for Training of Detection Animals

Meetings, Members, & Minutes

Meeting Schedule

Public Notices will remain online until the minutes are ratified and posted on the Meeting Minutes page.

Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at 665 Mainstream Drive, MetroCenter.

Board Members

Meeting Minutes

Copies of all minutes are maintained in the official record section of the administrative office. Please contact the board administrator to make arrangements to review minutes of meetings held prior to 2004.

Continuing Education

Failure to comply with continuing education requirements may result in disciplinary action against the licensee or registrant. The disciplinary action will be reported on the Department of Health license verification web site. 

Requirements

Tennessee Board of Pharmacy Rule 1140-05-.01

Requirements for Pharmacist License Renewal

Every person licensed as a pharmacist shall complete at least thirty (30) hours of continuing pharmaceutical education during each two (2) year license cycle. The required thirty (30) hours shall consist of at least fifteen (15) hours obtained through live contract programs. In order to fulfill the fifteen (15) live contact hour requirement, a pharmacist shall obtain the hours from a program designated as “live” by the ACPE-approved provider, from a program that is approved by the Board prior to the expiration of the pharmacist’s license or from an out-of-state program that is approved by the board of pharmacy in the state where the program was presented.

The Board of Pharmacy enforces its CPE requirements through a random audit of licensees who have renewed their pharmacist license. If you are randomly selected for audit, you will be notified in the month following the month you renewed your pharmacist license. At that time, you will be required to submit proof of all Continuing Pharmacy Education earned in the two (2) year license cycle.

CE Broker

Educational Programs

Education and Training

• Naloxone Training Course
• 2 Hour Prescribing Continuing Medical Education and Pharmacist Credits
• Oregon State University College of Pharmacy Contraceptive Education
• Approved Hormonal Contraceptive Training Courses through TPA 
• Preventing Opioid Deaths and Overdoses

Pharmacist Letter Hormonal Contraceptive Approved Training

• Approved Hormonal Contraceptive Training Courses
• Approved Hormonal Contraceptive Training Course Module 1
• Approved Hormonal Contraceptive Training Course Module 2
• Approved Hormonal Contraceptive Training Course Module 3
• Approved Hormonal Contraceptive Training Course Module 4
• Self- Screening Questionnaire

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions

Policies, Rules, & Statutes

Policies

• Remote Order Entry By Technicians
  
• Disciplinary Guidelines
• Policy on Continuing Education Violations
• Preventive Healthcare Policy
• Automated Dispensing System Policy Statement
• Scheduled II Prescriptions
• Policy on Drug Disposal
  • Controlled Substance Public Disposal Locations

Rules

Click here for Rules and Regulations pertaining to the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy

Statutes

LexisNexis Law - LexisNexis Law publishes the Tennessee Code Annotated. 

• Pharmacy Practice § 63 - 10 - 201
• Board of Pharmacy § 63 - 10 - 301

2025 Legislative Update

PC 24 HB234 / SB56 As enacted, extends the board of pharmacy to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 10.

PC 45 HB192 / SB282 As enacted, enacts the "Individualized Investigational Treatment Act." Outlines a patient’s right to seek treatment with an individualized investigational treatment and that a healthcare provider is protected against disciplinary action taken by the licensing board based solely on the provider’s recommendation regarding access or treatment with an individualized investigational treatment - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.

PC 46 HB111 / SB1283 As enacted, adds Hepatitis C to the list of serological tests run at the time of the first examination for pregnant women. Removes Hepatitis B and adds a second Syphilis screening for all pregnant women between the 28th and 32nd week of gestation. Also, adds a third Syphilis screening for all pregnant women at the time of delivery.

PC 56 HB383 / SB 744 As enacted, directs the commissioner of health to, on or before July 1, 2025, add alpha-gal syndrome to the department of health's published list of reportable diseases and conditions, the occurrence of which must be reported to the department by a healthcare provider pursuant to existing administrative rule. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

PC 68 HB693 / SB569 As enacted, makes certain changes to the practice of pharmacy, including removing the present prohibition on requiring a patient to pay an administrative fee for pharmacist-provided hormonal contraceptives when the patient is insured or covered and receives a pharmacy benefit that covers the cost of the hormonal contraceptives. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 56, Chapter 32 and Title 63, Chapter 10.

PC 69 HB1226 / SB669 As enacted, deletes all references to the world health organization; requires a pandemic to be declared by the federal centers for disease and prevention control, rather than the world health organization, with a subsequent declaration of a state of emergency by the governor for the governor to have exclusive jurisdiction to issue executive orders and directives related to the pandemic until the pandemic ceases to exist. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 68.

PC 100 HB657 / SB619 As enacted, allows a healthcare provider to petition a relevant board after completing a peer assistance or treatment program contract to remove information from the public-facing licensure verification website regarding the adverse action and the order by the relevant board after five years from the completion date of that program or contract indicated in such order; authorizes the division of health-related boards to promulgate rules to effectuate such petition process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

PC 125 HB1074 / SB1063 As enacted, removes the requirement that a provider notify a patient of communication between the provider and a health insurance entity or healthcare facility concerning additional information needed to process a prior authorization request for the patient; removes the requirement that an utilization review agent notify the enrollee and the provider or healthcare facility when additional information is needed from the enrollee, provider, or healthcare facility to make a determination on the request for prior authorization. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63, Chapter 1.

PC 127 HB1311 / SB1284 As enacted, removes requirement that a license issued by a health-related board be signed by members of the board prior to such issuance; authorizes the presiding officer to divide the board into panels to conduct contested case hearings or disciplinary matters; includes patient billing records as part of the medical and practice records that providers must make available for inspection upon the department's request; clarifies that identifying information of certain parties to a contested case hearing involving disciplinary charges filed against a provider must only be produced by the provider in response to a subpoena from a law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68

PC 128 HB113 / SB1290 As enacted, makes permanent the exclusion of narcotic testing equipment used to determine whether a controlled substance contains a synthetic opioid, unless the narcotic testing equipment is possessed for purposes of the commission of a drug offense, from the definition of drug paraphernalia; removes the July 1, 2025, repeal date for that exclusion. - Amends TCA Section 39- 17-402.

PC 217 HB990 / SB1004 As enacted, creates definitions for "inevitable abortion" and "serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" providing more clarity to physicians in determining when a condition could qualify for an abortion to be performed that is not considered criminal - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

PC 247 HB533 / SB449 As enacted, enacts the "Fertility Treatment and Contraceptive Protection Act." Outlines protections for fertility treatment and contraception - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

PC 266 HB1044 / SB955 As enacted, creates the "Medical Ethics Defense Act." Grants healthcare providers the legal right to decline to participate in or fund any healthcare procedure, treatment, or service that violates their conscience. - Amends TCA Title 63.

PC 272 HB1349 / SB1146 As enacted, requires the medical examiner's office to ascertain and document current drug use, including psychotropic drugs, by a deceased individual who committed a mass shooting; directs the University of Tennessee's health science center to study drug interactions between the psychotropic drugs and any other drugs present in the deceased individual's system; requires the department of health to disclose the psychotropic drug use of the individual to the public upon request. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

PC 294 HB1237 / SB1235 As enacted, prohibits the exclusion of persons from membership on state regulatory and health- related boards on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, and national origin; prohibits such boards from establishing or operating under race-based policies pertaining to their composition; creates a private cause of action against a board and its officers, employees, and agents for such practices; removes requirement that appointing authorities strive to ensure certain boards and commissions are represented by members of racial minorities. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 9; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

PC 295 HB1239 / SB421 As enacted, authorizes certain prescribing physician assistants and nurse practitioners to prescribe buprenorphine products for the treatment of opioid use disorder when the physician assistant or nurse practitioner is employed by or contracts with a state correctional facility or county or municipal jail, and certain other conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 41; Title 53 and Title 63.

PC 339 HB495 / SB606 As enacted, rewrites the fee limits for a party requesting a patient's medical record in either paper or electronic format from a provider or the provider's third-party release of information provider. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

PC 346 HB760 / SB817 As enacted, authorizes a healthcare practitioner to prescribe and a pharmacist to dispense a prescribed, bronchodilator rescue inhaler to an authorized entity to be administered to a person believed to be experiencing asthma symptoms or respiratory distress in an emergency situation, under a standing protocol from the healthcare practitioner; encourages schools in LEAs and public charter schools to keep bronchodilator rescue inhalers to be administered to students believed to be having asthma symptoms or in respiratory distress in an emergency situation. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

PC 347 HB826 / SB895 As enacted, outlines parental consent regarding medical treatment and video or voice recording of children on school property, as well as absences from school due to religious holidays- Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

PC 361 HB318 / SB263 As enacted, prohibits the enforcement and recognition of requirements or mandates issued by the World Health Organization, United Nations, or World Economic Forum in this state or its political subdivisions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.

PC390 HB1355 / SB1052 As enacted, specifies that a biological father or alleged biological father who makes token financial support to or for the benefit of a child or the child's mother during the pregnancy or when the mother had physical custody of the child is not a putative father; makes various other changes regarding final orders of adoption. Adds to the list of persons a healthcare provider can get informed consent from before vaccinating a minor to include biological, legal, adoptive parent, potential adoptive parent or individual granted medical decision-making authority over a child under state law - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 63.

PC 458 HB923 / SB1084 As enacted, enacts the "Dismantling DEI Departments Act." Prohibits a department, agency, or other unit of state government from use of a discriminatory preference in an effort to increase diversity, equity, or inclusion or establish or maintain an office, division, or department for such purposes. Sets exemptions for public health, medical research, or disease prevention programs - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49, Chapter 7.

PC 494 HB622 / SB1083 As enacted, enacts the “Dismantle DEI Act,” which prohibits local governments and public institutions of higher education from basing hiring decisions on any metrics that consider an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability, or hiring a particular candidate to achieve any goals to increase diversity, equity, or inclusion in the workplace. – Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.

PC 524 HB1330 / SB1316 As introduced, enacts the “Less is More Act of 2025.” – Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 20; Title 33; Title 38; Title 40; Title 52; Title 55; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68; Title 70 and Title 76.

PC 447 HB869 / SB890 As enacted, deletes the 72 hour pause on certain lab results, requiring labs to fully comply with federal information blocking requirements. Also outlines requirements for insurance entities to establish and maintain certain application programming interfaces as described in federal code for the benefit of insureds - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

PC 509 HB979 / SB764 As enacted, establishes rules around which types of physicians can be employed by hospitals in different counties, with specific restrictions for specialties like radiologists, anesthesiologists, pathologists, and emergency physicians. It also defines conditions under which these physicians can be employed, including ensuring medical decision-making is not interfered with by the employing hospital. Establishes a licensing system for anesthesiologist assistants in Tennessee, setting requirements for education, certification, and supervision, and outlining their scope of practice under the direct oversight of a licensed anesthesiologist. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.