BILL NUMBER: AB 880	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ridley-Thomas

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to  amend   add  Section 
1625 of   1626.6 to  the Business and Professions
Code, relating to dentistry.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 880, as amended, Ridley-Thomas. Dentistry  : licensure:
exempt  .
    The Dental Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation
of persons engaged in the practice of dentistry by the Dental Board
of California  . The act defines dentistry as the diagnosis
or treatment, by surgery or other method, of diseases and lesions and
the correction of malpositions of the human teeth, alveolar process,
gums, jaws, or associated structures, and provides that a person
practices dentistry if that person performs various specified acts.
  , and prohibits the practice of dentistry by any
person without a valid license, except in certain circumstances.
 
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
 
   This bill would additionally exempt from that prohibition the
practice of dentistry, as specified and as approved by the board, by
a final year student without compensation or expectation of
compensation and under the supervision of a licensed dentist in a
free clinic. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 1626.6 is added to the 
 Business and Professions Code   , to read:  
   1626.6.  (a) (1) In addition to the exemptions set forth in
Section 1626, the practice of dentistry by a final year student
rendered or performed without compensation or expectation of
compensation under the supervision of a licensed dentist in a free
clinic is exempt from the operation of this chapter.
   (2) The practice of dentistry exempted by paragraph (1) only
includes those operations, approved by the board, that are described
in the exemption provided in subdivision (b) of Section 1626 and
rendered or performed under the same supervisory conditions.
   (b) For purposes of this section, all of the following shall
apply:
   (1) "Free clinic" means a clinic as defined in Section 1200 of the
Health and Safety Code where there are no charges directly to the
patient for services rendered or for drugs, medicines, appliances, or
apparatuses furnished, including, but not limited to, a free clinic
as defined in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of
Section 1204 of the Health and Safety Code.
   (2) "Final year student" means a student of dentistry in his or
her final year of completion at a dental school approved by the
board.
   (3) "Licensed dentist" means a dentist licensed pursuant to this
chapter.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 1625 of the Business and
Professions Code is amended to read:
   1625.  Dentistry is the diagnosis or treatment, by surgery or
other method, of diseases and lesions and the correction of
malpositions of the human teeth, alveolar process, gums, jaws, or
associated structures. That diagnosis or treatment may include all
necessary related procedures as well as the use of drugs, anesthetic
agents, and physical evaluation. Without limiting the foregoing, a
person practices dentistry within the meaning of this chapter who
does one or more of the following:
   (a) By card, circular, pamphlet, newspaper, or in any other way
advertises himself or herself or represents himself or herself to be
a dentist.
   (b) Performs, or offers to perform, an operation or diagnosis of
any kind, or treats diseases or lesions of the human teeth, alveolar
process, gums, jaws, or associated structures, or corrects malposed
positions thereof.
   (c) In any way indicates that he or she will perform by himself or
herself or his or her agents or servants an operation upon the human
teeth, alveolar process, gums, jaws, or associated structures, or in
any way indicates that he or she will construct, alter, repair, or
sell a bridge, crown, denture or other prosthetic appliance or
orthodontic appliance.
   (d) Makes, or offers to make, an examination of, with the intent
to perform or cause to be performed an operation on the human teeth,
alveolar process, gums, jaws, or associated structures.
   (e) Manages or conducts as manager, proprietor, conductor, lessor,
or otherwise, a place where dental operations are performed.