S.B. No. 378 AN ACT 1-1 relating to the licensing of graduates of foreign or nonaccredited 1-2 dental schools to practice dentistry. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2, Article 4545a, Revised Statutes, as 1-5 added by Chapter 2 (S.B. No. 18), Acts of the 74th Legislature, 1-6 Regular Session, 1995, is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read 1-7 as follows: 1-8 (c) An applicant for a license to practice dentistry 1-9 applying under this section who fails the qualifying clinical 1-10 examination required by the Board under its rules three times shall 1-11 be required to attend a two-year program at a dental school 1-12 accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the 1-13 American Dental Association. The Board shall review two-year 1-14 programs offered to fulfill the requirements of this subsection for 1-15 educational sufficiency. 1-16 SECTION 2. Any rule or regulation relating to the 1-17 procedures, fees, and requirements for licensing graduates of 1-18 foreign or nonaccredited dental schools to practice dentistry in 1-19 Texas adopted under Section 2, Article 4544, Revised Statutes, 1-20 which was not in effect on August 31, 1994, shall not be effective 1-21 until December 1, 1995. 1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately, except Section 1-23 1 of this Act takes effect December 1, 1995. 2-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.