1-1 By: Moncrief S.B. No. 524 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 16, 1999; February 17, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health Services; 1-4 March 17, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 3, 1-5 Nays 0; March 17, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the public disclosure of certain disciplinary actions 1-9 of the State Board of Dental Examiners. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 2, Article 4550, Revised Statutes, is 1-12 amended to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 2. All of the records and files of the State Board of 1-14 Dental Examiners shall be public records and open to inspection at 1-15 reasonable times, except the investigation files and records which 1-16 shall be confidential and shall be divulged only to persons so 1-17 investigated upon completion of said investigation. It is not a 1-18 violation of this section for the Board to share investigation 1-19 files and records with another state regulatory agency or federal 1-20 law enforcement agency during the course of a joint investigation 1-21 or in determining the feasibility of conducting an investigation. 1-22 The exception from public disclosure of investigation files and 1-23 records provided by this section does not apply to the disclosure 1-24 of a disciplinary action of the Board, including: 1-25 (1) the revocation or suspension of a license; 1-26 (2) the imposition of a fine on a license holder; 1-27 (3) the placement on probation with conditions of a 1-28 license holder whose license has been suspended; 1-29 (4) the reprimand of a license holder; or 1-30 (5) the issuance of a warning letter to a license 1-31 holder. 1-32 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-38 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-39 * * * * *