By Gray H.B. No. 2635
76R7635 MXM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of 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:
1-8 (1) not less than eighteen (18) years of age;
1-9 (2) [and] a graduate of an accredited high school or
1-10 hold a certificate of high school equivalency (GED); and
1-11 (3) [be] a graduate of a recognized school or college
1-12 of dentistry or dental hygiene accredited by the Commission on
1-13 Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association and
1-14 approved by the State Board of Dental Examiners that includes at
1-15 least two full academic years of instruction or its equivalent at
1-16 the postsecondary level.
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 4A, Chapter 475, Acts of the 52nd
1-18 Legislature, Regular Session, 1951 (Article 4551e, Vernon's Texas
1-19 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsections (e) and (f) to
1-20 read as follows:
1-21 (e) The advisory committee is subject to Chapter 325,
1-22 Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence
1-23 as provided by that chapter, the advisory committee is abolished
1-24 September 1, 2005.
2-1 (f) The advisory committee is not subject to Section
2-2 2110.008, Government Code.
2-3 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-4 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.