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ID H0709

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/16/2018

Primary Sponsor

Ways and Means Committee

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Origin

House of Representatives

2018 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Amends Idaho Code Section 54-930 to allow dental health aide therapists to provide services in facilities operated by Indian health programs, effective January 1, 2019

  • Dental health aide therapists must be certified by a community health aide certification board within the Indian health service or by a tribe with standards no less stringent than federal standards

  • Dental health aide therapists must have attended a regionally accredited institution accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation and approved by the Idaho state board of dentistry

  • Dental health aide therapists must act under the indirect supervision of a licensed dentist

  • Licensed dentists are not prohibited from supervising dental health aide therapists providing services under these conditions

Legislative Description

Amends existing law to provide that dental health aide therapists are not prohibited from providing services under certain circumstances and to provide that licensed dentists are not prohibited from supervising certain dental health aide therapists.

DENTISTRY

Last Action

Reported Printed and Referred to Health & Welfare

3/19/2018

Committee Referrals

Health and Welfare3/19/2018

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