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SF 1331 Senate Long Description

E Relating to the practice of dentistry; specifying certain authorized services of dental hygienists as employees of health care facilities, requiring general supervision of and a collaborative agreement with a licensed dentist; requiring the commissioner of human services to establish a program to reimburse retired dentists for the license fee and the cost of malpractice insurance in exchange for a certain number of hours of dental services on a volunteer basis at community dental or dental training clinics located at state colleges or universities, specifying certain dentist documentation requirements; requiring the commissioner to establish a dental practice donation program coordinating donation of qualifying dental practices to qualified charitable organizations and licensed dentists wishing to maintain the practices, specifying certain dental practice qualification requirements, requiring location in designated underserved areas of the state as defined by the commissioner; requiring the commissioner to establish a procedure for dentists to donate dental practices to a qualified charitable organization, requiring the commissioner upon donation of the practice to provide the donating dentist with a statement verifying the donation for state and federal income tax purposes; requiring dentists accepting donated practices to enter into an agreement with the qualified charitable organization to maintain the practice for a certain minimum number of years at the donated practice site and to provide services to underserved populations, requiring the agreement to include terms for the recovery of the donated dental practice for accepting dentist nonfulfillment of the service commitment; providing medical assistance (MA) reimbursement for dental services to persons failing to keep certain appointments; requiring the board of dentistry in consultation with the university of Minnesota school of dentistry, the Minnesota state colleges and universities, the commissioner of health and licensed dentists and dental hygienists to develop a new dental auxiliary category entitled dental restorative practitioner to work with dentists to provide cavity preparations and restorations and other selected technical skills, requiring the board to establish a standard of practice and necessary educational qualifications for the practitioner, requiring the board to recommend certain amendments to the legislature by a certain date to permit foreign trained dentists to practice as dental hygienists or dental restorative practitioners; requiring MnSCU in consultation with the board to develop a training curriculum for the practitioner; requiring the commissioner of health in consultation with MnSCU to determine the capital improvements needed to establish community based dental clinics at state colleges and universities to be used as training sites and as public dental clinics for public program recipients, requiring submission of costs as part of the legislative capital budget request (mk, ja)