Senate Bill 0926

    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 926

    By Senator Forman





    32-756-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to dentistry; amending s.

  3         466.004, F.S.; revising qualifications for

  4         membership on the Board of Dentistry; providing

  5         an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 466.004, Florida

10  Statutes, is amended to read:

11         466.004  Board of Dentistry.--

12         (1)  To carry out the provisions of this chapter, there

13  is created within the department the Board of Dentistry

14  consisting of 11 members who shall be appointed by the

15  Governor and subject to confirmation by the Senate. Seven

16  members of the board must be licensed dentists actively

17  engaged in the clinical practice of dentistry in this state

18  whose principal source of income is derived from direct

19  patient care; two members must be licensed dental hygienists

20  actively engaged in the practice of dental hygiene in this

21  state; and the remaining two members must be laypersons who

22  are not, and have never been, dentists, dental hygienists, or

23  members of any closely related profession or occupation. One

24  dentist Each member of the board must be a full-time faculty

25  member at a dental school in this state, and each other board

26  member who is a licensed dentist must have been actively

27  engaged in the practice of dentistry primarily as a clinical

28  practitioner for at least 5 years immediately preceding the

29  date of her or his appointment to the board and must remain

30  primarily in clinical practice during all subsequent periods

31  of appointment to the board. Any person who is connected in

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 926
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  1  any way with any dental college or community college may be

  2  appointed to the board so long as that connection does not

  3  result in a relationship wherein such college provides more

  4  than 5 percent of the person's income. At least one member of

  5  the board must be 60 years of age or older. Members shall be

  6  appointed for 4-year terms.

  7         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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11    Requires one member of the Board of Dentistry to be a
      full-time faculty member at a dental school in this
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