By Berlanga                                            H.B. No. 933
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 933:
          By Berlanga                                        C.S.H.B. No. 933
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the regulation of the practice of dentistry.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article 4551g, Revised Statutes, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Art. 4551g.  Prescription required.  From and after the
    1-7  effective date of this Act every dentist requiring the making,
    1-8  fabricating, processing, constructing, producing, reproducing,
    1-9  duplicating, repairing, relining, or fixing of any full or partial
   1-10  denture, any fixed or removable dental bridge or appliance, any
   1-11  dental plate or plates of false teeth, any artificial dental
   1-12  restoration or any substitute or corrective device or appliance for
   1-13  the human teeth, gums, jaws, mouth, alveolar process, or any part
   1-14  thereof, shall prepare and deliver a prescription or work-order for
   1-15  same directed to the person, firm, or association, or other
   1-16  business entity which is to perform such work or service and such
   1-17  work-order or prescription shall contain (1)  the signature and
   1-18  Texas dental license number of such dentist; (2)  the date such was
   1-19  signed; (3)  the name and address of the patient for whom the act
   1-20  or service is ordered; and (4)  a description of the kind and type
   1-21  of act, service, or material ordered.  It shall be the duty of each
   1-22  dentist to keep a copy of each work-order or prescription for a
   1-23  period of two years, and maintain a separate file therefor in his
   1-24  dental office which shall be available for inspection by the
    2-1  officers, agents, or employees of the Texas State Board of Dental
    2-2  Examiners.  In addition, a dentist shall label a removable dental
    2-3  prosthesis fabricated in this state by the dentist or under a work
    2-4  order or prescription prepared by the dentist as provided by rules
    2-5  adopted by the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-11  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-12  passage, and it is so enacted.