1-1 By: Moncrief, Barrientos S.B. No. 378 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 18, 1995; April 18, 1995, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services; 1-4 April 27, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 27, 1995, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 378 By: Moncrief 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the licensing of graduates of foreign or nonaccredited 1-11 dental schools to practice dentistry. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Section 2, Article 4545a, Revised Statutes, as 1-14 added by Chapter 2 (S.B. No. 18), Acts of the 74th Legislature, 1-15 Regular Session, 1995, is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read 1-16 as follows: 1-17 (c) An applicant for a license to practice dentistry 1-18 applying under this section who fails the qualifying clinical 1-19 examination required by the Board under its rules three times shall 1-20 be required to attend a two-year program at a dental school 1-21 accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the 1-22 American Dental Association. The Board shall review two-year 1-23 programs offered to fulfill the requirements of this subsection for 1-24 educational sufficiency. 1-25 SECTION 2. Any rule or regulation relating to the 1-26 procedures, fees, and requirements for licensing graduates of 1-27 foreign or nonaccredited dental schools to practice dentistry in 1-28 Texas adopted under Section 2, Article 4544, Revised Statutes, 1-29 which was not in effect on August 31, 1994, shall not be effective 1-30 until December 1, 1995. 1-31 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately, except Section 1-32 1 of this Act takes effect December 1, 1995. 1-33 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-38 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-39 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-40 * * * * *