HB132 Alabama 2018 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Marcel Black

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2018

Title

Dental Examiners, Board of, patient abandonment defined, exemption of mobile facilities expanded to all state and local health dept. mobile dental facilities, exemptions for limited practice clarified, cont. education providers, time for taking licensing exam extended, display of license and reproduction of registration cert., fees, disciplinary action, approval of specialty status by board, membership ballot procedure, succession on bd., technical corrections, Secs. 34-9-1, 34-9-6.1, 34-9-7, 34-9-7.1, 34-9-10, 34-9-13, 34-9-15, 34-9-16, 34-9-18, 34-9-19, 34-9-40, 34-9-41, 34-9-88 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, the State Board of Dental Examiners is the entity responsible for licensing and regulating dentists, dental hygienists, and expanded duty dental assistants in the state.

This bill would define and include patient abandonment as grounds for disciplinary action against a dentist.

This bill would expand the exemption of mobile dental facilities subject to registration by the board from certain Jefferson County Department of Health mobile dental facilities to any mobile dental facilities operated by the Alabama Department of Public Health or local county health department.

This bill would revise and clarify the exemption from regulation provided for a dentist who infrequently engages in practice across state lines from less than 10 times a year to less than 10 days a year, and would delete the exemption for practice involving less than 10 patients per calendar year.

This bill would authorize the board to approve and recognize additional continuing education providers.

This bill would expand the time during which an applicant may take the licensure examination to within 18 months after completion of an accredited or approved post-doctoral residency program.

This bill would require each dentist and dental hygienist to display his or her license certificate in a visible location and would allow the licensee to reproduce his or her annual registration certificate.

This bill would authorize the board to establish rules for continuing education requirements for permits.

This bill would increase the dental hygiene by regional exam application fee.

This bill would clarify that failure to comply with any order of the board is grounds for disciplinary action.

This bill would provide for the roll of the board, in lieu of the American Dental Association, in recognizing and approving specialty status in advertising by dentists.

This bill would remove the requirement that board member ballots accompany annual registration forms.

This bill would prohibit an appointed board member from succeeding himself or herself on the board.

This bill would remove the requirement that the board hold an annual meeting in Birmingham at the University of Alabama School of Dentistry, and would authorize the board to hold additional meetings as the board may designate.

This bill would require proof of continuing education for the annual renewal of an oral conscious sedation permit.

This bill would also make technical corrections.

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Subjects

Dentists