BILL NUMBER: AB 403	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 29, 2009
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 4, 2009
	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, 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 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.


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 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.