By Davila H.B. No. 3186
75R6708 GJH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain qualifications for dental hygienists.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2, Chapter 475, Acts of the 52nd
1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1951 (Article 4551e, Vernon's Texas
1-6 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 2. QUALIFICATIONS. A dental hygienist shall be not
1-8 less than eighteen (18) years of age and a graduate of an
1-9 accredited high school or hold a certificate of high school
1-10 equivalency (GED) and be a graduate of a recognized and accredited
1-11 school or college of dentistry or dental hygiene approved by the
1-12 Texas State Board of Dental Examiners in which the course of
1-13 instruction shall be the equivalent of not less than two (2) terms
1-14 of eight (8) months each and who shall have thereafter passed the
1-15 [an] examination under Section 5 of this Act [given by and before
1-16 the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners] on subjects pertaining
1-17 to dental hygiene, and who shall have complied with all of the
1-18 provisions of this Act and the rules and regulations promulgated by
1-19 the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners.
1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.