Tennessee Code Title 68. Health, Safety and Environmental Protection § 68-29-118

(a) The board shall prescribe minimum qualifications for medical laboratory personnel, to include generalists, specialty and subspecialty categories as dictated by current laboratory practices, and special analysts in microbiology, serology, biochemistry, hematology, immunohematology and biophysics.

(b) The board shall issue a license to any person who meets the minimum qualifications and who demonstrates that such person possesses the character, training and ability to qualify in those areas for which the license is sought.

(c) Persons who perform analytic testing 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 person so designated by the rules and regulations promulgated under the authority of this chapter and the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.