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1 1 SENATE FILE 2075
1 2
1 3
1 4 AN ACT
1 5 RELATING TO THE CREATION OF A DENTAL HYGIENE
1 6 COMMITTEE WITHIN THE BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS.
1 7
1 8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 9
1 10 Section 1. Section 147.14, subsection 4, Code 1997, is
1 11 amended to read as follows:
1 12 4. For dental examiners, five members shall be licensed to
1 13 practice dentistry, two members shall be licensed to practice
1 14 dental hygiene and two members not licensed to practice
1 15 dentistry or dental hygiene and who shall represent the
1 16 general public. A majority of the members of the board shall
1 17 constitute a quorum. No member of the dental faculty of the
1 18 school of dentistry at the state University of Iowa shall be
1 19 eligible to be appointed. Beginning January 1, 2000, persons
1 20 appointed to the board as dental hygienist members shall not
1 21 be employed by or receive any form of remuneration from a
1 22 dental or dental hygiene educational institution. The two
1 23 dental hygienist board members and one dentist board member
1 24 shall constitute a dental hygiene committee of the board as
1 25 provided in section 153.33A.
1 26 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 153.33A DENTAL HYGIENE COMMITTEE.
1 27 1. A three-member dental hygiene committee of the board of
1 28 dental examiners is created, consisting of the two dental
1 29 hygienist members of the board and one dentist member of the
1 30 board. The dentist member of the committee must have
1 31 supervised and worked in collaboration with a dental hygienist
1 32 for a period of at least three years immediately preceding
1 33 election to the committee. The dentist member shall be
1 34 elected to the committee annually by a majority vote of board
1 35 members.
2 1 2. The committee shall have the authority to adopt
2 2 recommendations regarding the practice, discipline, education,
2 3 examination, and licensure of dental hygienists, subject to
2 4 subsection 3, and shall carry out duties as assigned by the
2 5 board. The committee shall have no regulatory or disciplinary
2 6 authority with regard to dentists, dental assistants, dental
2 7 lab technicians, or any other auxiliary dental personnel.
2 8 3. The board shall ratify recommendations of the committee
2 9 at the first meeting of the board following adoption of the
2 10 recommendations by the committee, or at a meeting of the board
2 11 specifically called for the purpose of board review and
2 12 ratification of committee recommendations. The board shall
2 13 decline to ratify committee recommendations only if the board
2 14 makes a specific finding that a recommendation exceeds the
2 15 jurisdiction or expands the scope of the committee beyond the
2 16 authority granted in subsection 2, creates an undue financial
2 17 impact on the board, or is not supported by the record. The
2 18 board shall pay the necessary expenses of the committee and of
2 19 the board in implementing committee recommendations ratified
2 20 by the board.
2 21 4. This section shall not be construed as impacting or
2 22 changing the scope of practice of the profession of dental
2 23 hygiene or authorizing the independent practice of dental
2 24 hygiene.
2 25
2 26
2 27
2 28 MARY E. KRAMER
2 29 President of the Senate
2 30
2 31
2 32
2 33 RON J. CORBETT
2 34 Speaker of the House
2 35
3 1 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
3 2 is known as Senate File 2075, Seventy-seventh General Assembly.
3 3
3 4
3 5
3 6 MARY PAT GUNDERSON
3 7 Secretary of the Senate
3 8 Approved , 1998
3 9
3 10
3 11
3 12 TERRY E. BRANSTAD
3 13 Governor
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