By: Rabuck H.B. No. 190 73R1146 MLR-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to emergency dental care for elderly individuals. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 43.004(b), Health and Safety Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (b) The board shall adopt rules to govern the program, to 1-7 prescribe the type, amount, and duration of oral health services to 1-8 be provided, and, if necessary to conform to budgetary limitations, 1-9 to prescribe a system of program priorities regarding the types of 1-10 services to be furnished, the geographic areas to be covered, or 1-11 the classes of individuals eligible for services. However, in 1-12 adopting program priorities, the board shall require the provision 1-13 of emergency care for individuals 55 years of age or older. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.