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