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          A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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          AN ACT
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        relating to the exemption of registered dental laboratories from  | 
      
      
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        certain distributing and manufacturing licensing requirements. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 431.273, Health and Safety Code, is  | 
      
      
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        amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (a-1)  A person is exempt from licensing under this  | 
      
      
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        subchapter if the person holds a registration certificate issued  | 
      
      
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        under Chapter 266, Occupations Code, and engages only in conduct  | 
      
      
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        within the scope of that registration. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |