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.
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