By: Berlanga H.B. No. 933
73R3294 JMM-D
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 4543b, Revised Statutes, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Art. 4543b. Sunset Provision. The State Board of Dental
1-7 Examiners is subject to Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset
1-8 Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter,
1-9 the board is abolished September 1, 2005 <1993>.
1-10 SECTION 2. Article 4551g, Revised Statutes, is amended to
1-11 read as follows:
1-12 Art. 4551g. Prescription required. From and after the
1-13 effective date of this Act every dentist requiring the making,
1-14 fabricating, processing, constructing, producing, reproducing,
1-15 duplicating, repairing, relining, or fixing of any full or partial
1-16 denture, any fixed or removable dental bridge or appliance, any
1-17 dental plate or plates of false teeth, any artificial dental
1-18 restoration or any substitute or corrective device or appliance for
1-19 the human teeth, gums, jaws, mouth, alveolar process, or any part
1-20 thereof, shall prepare and deliver a prescription or work-order for
1-21 same directed to the person, firm, or association, or other
1-22 business entity which is to perform such work or service and such
1-23 work-order or prescription shall contain (1) the signature and
1-24 Texas dental license number of such dentist; (2) the date such was
2-1 signed; (3) the name and address of the patient for whom the act
2-2 or service is ordered; and (4) a description of the kind and type
2-3 of act, service, or material ordered. It shall be the duty of each
2-4 dentist to keep a copy of each work-order or prescription for a
2-5 period of two years, and maintain a separate file therefor in his
2-6 dental office which shall be available for inspection by the
2-7 officers, agents, or employees of the Texas State Board of Dental
2-8 Examiners. In addition, a dentist shall label a removable dental
2-9 prosthesis fabricated in this state by the dentist or under a work
2-10 order or prescription prepared by the dentist as provided by rules
2-11 adopted by the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners.
2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.