1-1 By: Berlanga (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 933
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 5, 1993;
1-3 April 5, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
1-4 and Human Services; May 20, 1993, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 20, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Zaffirini x
1-9 Ellis x
1-10 Madla x
1-11 Moncrief x
1-12 Nelson x
1-13 Patterson x
1-14 Shelley x
1-15 Truan x
1-16 Wentworth x
1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-18 AN ACT
1-19 relating to the regulation of the practice of dentistry.
1-20 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-21 SECTION 1. Article 4551g, Revised Statutes, is amended to
1-22 read as follows:
1-23 Art. 4551g. Prescription required. From and after the
1-24 effective date of this Act every dentist requiring the making,
1-25 fabricating, processing, constructing, producing, reproducing,
1-26 duplicating, repairing, relining, or fixing of any full or partial
1-27 denture, any fixed or removable dental bridge or appliance, any
1-28 dental plate or plates of false teeth, any artificial dental
1-29 restoration or any substitute or corrective device or appliance for
1-30 the human teeth, gums, jaws, mouth, alveolar process, or any part
1-31 thereof, shall prepare and deliver a prescription or work-order for
1-32 same directed to the person, firm, or association, or other
1-33 business entity which is to perform such work or service and such
1-34 work-order or prescription shall contain (1) the signature and
1-35 Texas dental license number of such dentist; (2) the date such was
1-36 signed; (3) the name and address of the patient for whom the act
1-37 or service is ordered; and (4) a description of the kind and type
1-38 of act, service, or material ordered. It shall be the duty of each
1-39 dentist to keep a copy of each work-order or prescription for a
1-40 period of two years, and maintain a separate file therefor in his
1-41 dental office which shall be available for inspection by the
1-42 officers, agents, or employees of the Texas State Board of Dental
1-43 Examiners. In addition, a dentist shall label a removable dental
1-44 prosthesis fabricated in this state by the dentist or under a
1-45 work-order or prescription prepared by the dentist as provided by
1-46 rules adopted by the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners.
1-47 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-52 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-53 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-54 * * * * *
1-55 Austin,
1-56 Texas
1-57 May 20, 1993
1-58 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-59 President of the Senate
1-60 Sir:
1-61 We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was
1-62 referred H.B. No. 933, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-63 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-64 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-65 Zaffirini,
1-66 Chair
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1-68 WITNESSES
2-1 FOR AGAINST ON
2-2 ___________________________________________________________________
2-3 Name: Sally Hanners x
2-4 Representing: TX Dental Asso
2-5 City: Austin
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