HB132 Alabama 2018 Session

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

To amend Sections 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, and 34-9-88, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the regulation of dentists and dental hygienists; to define and include patient abandonment as grounds for disciplinary action against a dentist; to expand the exemption of mobile dental facilities subject to registration by the board to any mobile dental facility operated by the Alabama Department of Public Health or a local county health department; to exempt from regulation a dentist who infrequently engages in practice across state lines for less than 10 days a year and to delete the exemption for infrequent practice involving less than 10 patients per calendar year; to authorize the board to approve additional continuing education providers; to 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; to require each dentist and dental hygienist to display his or her license certificate in a visible location; to allow a licensee to reproduce his or her annual registration certificate; to authorize the board to establish rules for continuing education requirements for permits; to increase the dental hygiene by regional exam application fee; to clarify that failure to comply with any order of the board is grounds for disciplinary action; to provide for the roll of the board, in lieu of the American Dental Association, in recognizing and approving specialty status in advertising by dentists; to remove the requirement that board member ballots accompany annual registration forms; to prohibit appointed board members from succeeding themselves; to remove the requirement that the board hold an annual meeting at the University of Alabama School of Dentistry; to authorize the board to hold additional meetings; to require proof of continuing education for the annual renewal of an oral conscious sedation permit; and to make technical corrections.