By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 368
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the regulation of the practice of dentistry.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Article 4551g, Revised Statutes, is amended to
    1-4  read as follows:
    1-5        Art. 4551g.  PRESCRIPTION REQUIRED.  From and after the
    1-6  effective date of this Act every dentist requiring the making,
    1-7  fabricating, processing, constructing, producing, reproducing,
    1-8  duplicating, repairing, relining, or fixing of any full or partial
    1-9  denture, any fixed or removable dental bridge or appliance, any
   1-10  dental plate or plates of false teeth, any artificial dental
   1-11  restoration or any substitute or corrective device or appliance for
   1-12  the human teeth, gums, jaws, mouth, alveolar process, or any part
   1-13  thereof, shall prepare and deliver a prescription or work-order for
   1-14  same directed to the person, firm, or association, or other
   1-15  business entity which is to perform such work or service and such
   1-16  work-order or prescription shall contain (1) the signature and
   1-17  Texas dental license number of such dentist; (2) the date such was
   1-18  signed; (3) the name and address of the patient for whom the act or
   1-19  service is ordered; and (4) a description of the kind and type of
   1-20  act, service, or material ordered.  It shall be the duty of each
   1-21  dentist to keep a copy of each work-order or prescription for a
   1-22  period of two years, and maintain a separate file therefor in his
   1-23  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, it shall be the duty of each dentist to
    2-3  label each removable dental prosthesis fabricated in this state by
    2-4  the dentist or pursuant to a work-order or prescription prepared by
    2-5  him as the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners may by rule
    2-6  require.
    2-7        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-12  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-13  passage, and it is so enacted.