BILL NUMBER: AB 403	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuller

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2009

   An act to amend Section 1917 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to dental hygienists.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 403, as amended, Fuller. Dental hygienists: examinations and
licensure.
   Existing law, operative July 1, 2009, establishes the Dental
Hygiene Committee of California in the Dental Board of California,
and provides for the licensure and regulation of dental hygienists by
the committee. Existing law requires the committee to license as a
registered dental hygienist a person who completes an approved
educational program, as specified, and who passes  various
examinations, including   a clinical examination
prescribed by the committee, an examination in California law and
ethics prescribed by the committee, and  a national written
dental hygiene examination approved by the committee, with specified
exemptions.
   This bill would  instead  provide that satisfactory 
performance on the state clinical examination, or satisfactory 
completion of the dental hygiene examination given by the Western
Regional Examining Board  or any other clinical dental hygiene
examination approved by the Dental Hygiene Committee of California
 satisfies  the clinical examination requirement for
licensure as a dental hygienist. The bill would also provide that
satisfactory completion of the National Dental Hygiene Board
examination satisfies  the national testing examination
requirement for licensure as a dental hygienist.
   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 1917 of the   Business
and Professions Code  is amended to read: 
   1917.  The committee shall license as a registered dental
hygienist a person who satisfies all of the following requirements:
   (a) Completion of an educational program for registered dental
hygienists, approved by the committee, accredited by the Commission
on Dental Accreditation, and conducted by a degree-granting,
postsecondary institution. 
   (b) Satisfactory performance on a clinical examination and an
examination in California law and ethics as prescribed by the
committee.  
   (c) Satisfactory completion of a national written dental hygiene
examination approved by the committee.  
   (b) Satisfactory performance on the state clinical examination, or
satisfactory completion of the dental hygiene examination given by
the Western Regional Examining Board or any other clinical dental
hygiene examination approved by the committee.  
   (c) Satisfactory completion of the National Dental Hygiene Board
examination.  
   (d) Satisfactory completion of the examination in California law
and ethics as prescribed by the committee.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 1917 of the Business and
Professions Code is amended to read:
   1917.  The committee shall license as a registered dental
hygienist a person who satisfies all of the following requirements:
   (a) Completion of an educational program for registered dental
hygienists, approved by the committee, accredited by the Commission
on Dental Accreditation, and conducted by a degree-granting,
postsecondary institution.
   (b) Satisfactory performance on a clinical examination and an
examination in California law and ethics as prescribed by the
committee.
   (c) Satisfactory completion of the dental hygiene examination
given by the Western Regional Examining Board or any other national
written dental hygiene examination approved by the committee.