By: Shelley S.B. No. 230 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to providing oral health care to nursing home residents. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended 1-4 by adding Subsection (t) to read as follows: 1-5 (t) The department shall provide basic oral health care for 1-6 adult nursing home residents to the extent permitted by federal 1-7 law, including but not limited to a mandatory intraoral examination 1-8 by a licensed dentist for all new residents on admission to a 1-9 nursing home and yearly thereafter unless waived by the resident or 1-10 the resident's authorized agent. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.