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.