By Davila H.B. No. 3183 75R7584 GJH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to dental procedures involving a minor. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 9, Title 71, Revised Statutes, is amended 1-5 by adding Article 4548k to read as follows: 1-6 Art. 4548k. PROCEDURES INVOLVING MINORS. A dentist shall 1-7 allow a parent or legal guardian of a minor to be present during 1-8 any procedure performed by the dentist involving the minor. 1-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-10 applies only to a dental procedure performed on or after that date. 1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.