By Harris H.B. No. 856 74R3108 JMM-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the scope of practice of a dentist performing oral and 1-3 maxillofacial surgery. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 9, Title 71, Revised Statutes, is amended 1-6 by adding Article 4548b to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 4548b. ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY. The dental 1-8 specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery includes the diagnosis 1-9 of and the surgical and adjunctive treatment of diseases, injuries, 1-10 and defects involving both the functional and aesthetic aspects of 1-11 the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.