By Moncrief S.B. No. 524 76R5477 SMH-D 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.