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 4543b, Revised Statutes, is amended to
    1-4  read as follows:
    1-5        Art. 4543b.  SUNSET PROVISION.  The State Board of Dental
    1-6  Examiners is subject to Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset
    1-7  Act).  Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter,
    1-8  the board is abolished September 1, 2005 <1993>.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  Article 4551g, Revised Statutes, is amended to
   1-10  read as follows:
   1-11        Art. 4551g.  PRESCRIPTION REQUIRED.  From and after the
   1-12  effective date of this Act every dentist requiring the making,
   1-13  fabricating, processing, constructing, producing, reproducing,
   1-14  duplicating, repairing, relining, or fixing of any full or partial
   1-15  denture, any fixed or removable dental bridge or appliance, any
   1-16  dental plate or plates of false teeth, any artificial dental
   1-17  restoration or any substitute or corrective device or appliance for
   1-18  the human teeth, gums, jaws, mouth, alveolar process, or any part
   1-19  thereof, shall prepare and deliver a prescription or work-order for
   1-20  same directed to the person, firm, or association, or other
   1-21  business entity which is to perform such work or service and such
   1-22  work-order or prescription shall contain (1) the signature and
   1-23  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 or
    2-2  service is ordered; and (4) a description of the kind and type of
    2-3  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, it shall be the duty of each dentist to
    2-9  label each removable dental prosthesis fabricated in this state by
   2-10  the dentist or pursuant to a work-order or prescription prepared by
   2-11  him as the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners may by rule
   2-12  require.
   2-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-19  passage, and it is so enacted.