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AL SB365
Bill
Status
4/4/2013
Primary Sponsor
Paul Bussman
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AI Summary
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Defines and establishes licensing requirements, duties, and responsibilities for expanded duty dental assistants as a new category of dental professional in Alabama.
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Authorizes the State Board of Dental Examiners to charge and collect fees for licensing expanded duty dental assistants and an annual monitoring fee ($2,000) for the Alabama Impaired Dental Professionals Committee.
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Allows the board president to designate any board member to issue subpoenas and enables board members to administer oaths to witnesses in disciplinary proceedings.
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Permits depositions taken in board matters to be returned directly to the board office rather than to the circuit court clerk, streamlining the regulatory process.
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Makes technical corrections and updates terminology throughout dental practice regulations to include expanded duty dental assistants alongside dentists and dental hygienists.
Legislative Description
Board of Dental Examiners, authorize to charge and collect impaired annual monitoring fee, authorize president to designate any board member to issue subpoenas, and to provide for filing of depositions in board office, Secs. 34-9-1, 34-9-4, 34-9-6, 34-9-7, 34-9-7.2, 34-9-8, 34-9-9, 34-9-10, 34-9-12, 34-9-13, 34-9-14, 34-9-15, 34-9-16, 34-9-18, 34-9-22, 34-9-26, 34-9-27, 34-9-28, 34-9-40, 34-9-46, 34-9-47, 34-38-2 am'd.
Dental Examiners of Alabama, Board of
Last Action
Indefinitely Postponed
5/7/2013