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.