1-1  By:  Harris (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)                  H.B. No. 856
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House March 8, 1995;
    1-3  March 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Economic Development; March 15, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 15, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the scope of practice of a dentist performing oral and
    1-9  maxillofacial surgery.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Chapter 9, Title 71, Revised Statutes, is amended
   1-12  by adding Article 4548b to read as follows:
   1-13        Art. 4548b.  ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY.  The dental
   1-14  specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery includes the diagnosis
   1-15  of and the surgical and adjunctive treatment of diseases, injuries,
   1-16  and defects involving both the functional and aesthetic aspects of
   1-17  the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region.
   1-18  Nothing in this article is intended to expand the scope of practice
   1-19  of an oral and maxillofacial surgeon.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-25  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-26  passage, and it is so enacted.
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