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SF 357 Senate Long Description

E Relating to health; modifying certain provisions regulating the + practice of dentistry; requiring the commissioner of health to contract with the +national foundation of dentistry for the handicapped to develop and operate a +donated dental services program for public program recipients and the +uninsured by dentists volunteering services without compensation, specifying +certain contract content, program, funding and documentation and reporting requirements; modifying certain requirements for the licensing of +faculty dentists, providing for the issuance of limited and full faculty +licenses to members of the faculties of accredited Minnesota schools of +dentistry, dental hygiene or dental assisting by the board of dentistry; requiring the +board to grant an exemption to the continuing education requirements for +dentists retired from active practice and providing dental services without reimbursement to the indigent or to recipients of the medical +assistance (MA), general assistance medical care or MinnesotaCare programs and to +waive the clinical examination required for licensure for certain graduates of +accredited dental schools successfully completing certain accredited +postdoctoral dental residency programs; modifying certain conditions for the limited +authorization for dental hygienists performance of services before patient +examination by a licensed dentist, requiring dental hygienists before performing +authorized services to provide patients with a consent to treatment form and +specifying certain requirements for referrals; authorizing licensed dental +hygienists or registered dental assistants to perform certain restorative +procedures; modifying certain duties of the dental access advisory committee, +making permanent the requirement for the commissioner of human services to +annually report on activities and recommendations of the committee and +extending the expiration date of the committee; requesting the commissioner in +consultation with the committee to study the feasibility of developing urgent care+ dental clinics for recipients of medical assistance, GAMC and MinnesotaCare +as an alternative to receiving dental care services in hospital emergency +rooms; appropriating money to the board and the commissioner of health for +the donated dental services program and repealing the existing program (mk, ja)