2010 Tennessee Code
Title 33 - Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Chapter 3 - General Rules Applicable to Service Recipients
Part 1 - General Rights of All Service Recipients
33-3-114 - Exceptions to evidentiary privilege of mental health professionals.

33-3-114. Exceptions to evidentiary privilege of mental health professionals.

Notwithstanding any evidentiary privilege a qualified mental health professional may have, including §§ 24-1-207, 63-11-213, 63-22-114, and 63-23-107 [transferred to § 63-23-109], the qualified mental health professional may be compelled to testify in:

     (1)  Judicial proceedings under this title to commit a person with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability to treatment if the qualified mental health professional decides that the service recipient 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 the service recipient if the service recipient was advised that communications to the qualified mental health professional would not be privileged;

     (3)  Judicial proceedings under chapter 8, part 3 of this title; and

     (4)  Guardianship, conservatorship, and veterans' guardianship proceedings under title 34.

[Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1; 2002, ch. 730, § 14.]