By Moncrief                                            S.B. No. 524
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the public disclosure of certain disciplinary actions
 1-3     of the State Board of Dental Examiners.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2, Article 4550, Revised Statutes, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 2.  All of the records and files of the State Board of
 1-8     Dental Examiners shall be public records and open to inspection at
 1-9     reasonable times, except the investigation files and records which
1-10     shall be confidential and shall be divulged only to persons so
1-11     investigated upon completion of said investigation.  It is not a
1-12     violation of this section for the Board to share investigation
1-13     files and records with another state regulatory agency or federal
1-14     law enforcement agency during the course of a joint investigation
1-15     or in determining the feasibility of conducting an investigation.
1-16     The exception from public disclosure of investigation  files and
1-17     records provided by this section does not apply to the disclosure
1-18     of a disciplinary action of the Board, including:
1-19                 (1)  the revocation or suspension of a license;
1-20                 (2)  the imposition of a fine on a license holder;
1-21                 (3)  the placement on probation with conditions of a
1-22     license holder whose license has been suspended;
1-23                 (4)  the reprimand of a license holder; or
1-24                 (5)  the issuance of a warning letter to a license
 2-1     holder.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-7     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-8     passage, and it is so enacted.