Sections
86 entriesSection 1900Establishes only legislative intent to permit full utilization of registered dental hygienists, registered dental hygienists in alternative practice, and registered dental hygienists…Section 1901Establishes the Dental Hygiene Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs, assigns it administration of this article, and treats statutory…Section 1902Defines “dental hygiene board,” “dental board,” “direct supervision,” “general supervision,” and “oral prophylaxis” for this article. Direct supervision requires the licensed dentist…Section 1902.1Establishes protection of the public as the dental hygiene board’s highest priority when exercising licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever public protection…Section 1902.2Requires dental-hygiene licensees at initial licensure and renewal or inactive-license applications to report practice or employment status, including whether work is at…Section 1902.3Allows a dental hygienist licensed elsewhere to teach at a California dental-hygiene college without a California license under a four-year, nonrenewable special…Section 1903Establishes a nine-member dental hygiene board; public members cannot have held a license in five years or hold dental-business interests. Terms are…Section 1904Requires the dental hygiene board to meet at least twice during each calendar year and to conduct additional meetings at appropriate locations…Section 1905Requires the dental hygiene board to approve or deny educational programs, review license applications, administer examinations, set fees no higher than actual…Section 1905.1Allows the dental hygiene board to contract with the Dental Board of California to carry out the article and specifically to perform…Section 1906Requires the dental hygiene board to adopt, amend, and revoke regulations implementing this article under the referenced rulemaking law, but bars regulations…Section 1907Allows registered dental hygienists to perform registered-dental-assistant functions, with a grandfather rule for hygienists licensed by December 31, 2005, who may perform…Section 1908Defines dental-hygiene practice to include assessment, care-plan development and implementation, oral-health education, counseling, and screenings, while excluding diagnosis and full treatment planning,…Section 1909Allows a registered dental hygienist, under direct supervision of a licensed dentist, to perform soft-tissue curettage, administer local anesthesia, and administer nitrous…Section 1910Allows a registered dental hygienist under general supervision to perform preventive and therapeutic interventions including oral prophylaxis, scaling, and root planing; apply…Section 1910.5Allows trained registered dental hygienists to select radiographs before a dentist’s initial examination in dental offices or telehealth-supported public-health settings and to…Section 1911Allows registered dental hygienists without supervision to provide education, oral-health training, and screenings, but requires referral of patients with possible oral abnormalities…Section 1911.5Allows a registered dental hygienist to provide fluoride varnish to a patient without supervision, despite the referenced supervision provision. The authorization specifically…Section 1912Requires general supervision for any registered-dental-hygienist procedure or service that does not specifically require direct supervision, but only when it does not…Section 1913Allows a registered dental hygienist, unless this chapter provides otherwise, to perform any procedure or service within the hygienist’s scope of practice…Section 1914Allows a registered dental hygienist to use any material or device approved for a service or procedure within the hygienist’s scope of…Section 1915Prohibits anyone other than licensed dentists and specified registered dental hygienists from practicing dental hygiene or performing dental-hygiene procedures, with exceptions for…Section 1916Requires dental-hygiene licensure applicants to provide electronic fingerprints for state and federal criminal-history checks; an out-of-state applicant or licensee may instead provide…Section 1917Requires the dental hygiene board to grant initial hygienist licensure to applicants completing an approved accredited degree, national examination, California law-and-ethics examination,…Section 1917.1Allows out-of-state registered dental hygienists licensure without a board clinical exam if they meet credential, education, examination, discipline, and practice requirements, including…Section 1917.3Bars a registered-dental-hygienist examinee from further clinical reexamination after three failed attempts or after one failure caused by a single incident of…Section 1918Requires the dental hygiene board to license a registered dental hygienist in extended functions who holds a current California registered-hygienist license, completes…Section 1920Requires a person holding an active extended-functions or alternative-practice dental-hygienist license on July 1, 2009 to be automatically issued a registered-dental-hygienist license…Section 1921Allows a registered dental hygienist in extended functions or in alternative practice to perform every duty or function authorized for a registered…Section 1922Requires the dental hygiene board to license an alternative-practice hygienist who passes California law and ethics, applies, pays fees, and either holds…Section 1924Allows a registered dental hygienist who completed prescribed Health Manpower Pilot Project classes and established an independent practice by June 30, 1997…Section 1925Allows a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice to perform the referenced authorized functions as a dentist’s or alternative-practice hygienist’s employee, independent…Section 1926Allows an alternative-practice dental hygienist to perform specified hygiene duties in homebound residences, schools, residential or transferred-patient medical settings, dental offices, and…Section 1926.01Allows an alternative-practice dental hygienist, with documented consultation from a collaborating dentist, to perform the referenced additional duties in homebound residences, residential…Section 1926.05Allows registered dental hygienists in alternative practice to perform the referenced enhanced duties in homebound residences, schools, residential facilities and institutions, dental…Section 1926.1Allows an alternative-practice dental hygienist to operate a registered mobile dental-hygiene clinic in authorized settings and permits announced or unannounced board inspections.…Section 1926.2Allows an alternative-practice dental hygienist to operate one registered mobile dental-hygiene clinic subject to board rules and fees. Mobile service and exempt-entity…Section 1926.3Requires every alternative-practice dental hygienist to register all physical facilities with the executive officer within 30 calendar days, or report having none;…Section 1926.4Requires an alternative-practice dental hygienist seeking more than one place of practice to apply to the dental hygiene board, pay the required…Section 1927Prohibits an alternative-practice registered dental hygienist from representing or implying an ability to provide dental services or make dental diagnoses beyond evaluating…Section 1928Allows a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice to submit, or permit submission of, insurance or other third-party claims for patient services…Section 1929Allows a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice to hire other alternative-practice registered dental hygienists to assist in the practice and to…Section 1930Requires a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice to provide the dental hygiene board with documentation of an existing relationship with at…Section 1931Allows an alternative-practice dental hygienist initially to serve a patient without written verification of a dentist or physician examination, but after 18…Section 1932Allows the dental hygiene board to issue a three-year probationary license to an otherwise qualified hygienist applicant and impose conditions such as…Section 1933Requires a substitute dental-hygiene license to be issued when a licensee requests one, pays the required fee, and submits an affidavit or…Section 1934Requires a dental-hygiene licensee to notify the board within 30 days after changing the physical address of record or email address and…Section 1935Sets an unrenewed dental-hygiene license, unless specifically excepted, to expire at midnight on the last day of the licensee’s birth month during…Section 1936Allows an expired dental-hygiene license to be renewed within five years by filing the board form and paying all accrued renewal and…Section 1936.1Requires dental-hygiene license renewal applicants to assure the board they completed acceptable continuing education during the preceding two years and authorizes suspension…Section 1937Requires a suspended dental-hygiene license to remain subject to expiration and renewal under this article, but renewal does not authorize the licensee…Section 1938Bars renewal of a revoked dental-hygiene license even though it remains subject to expiration. If the license is reinstated after expiration, reinstatement…Section 1939Bars renewal, restoration, reinstatement, or reissuance of a dental-hygiene license that has remained unrenewed for five years after expiration. The former license…Section 1940Requires an inactive-license request on a board form and, to restore active status, an application plus evidence of approved continuing education completed…Section 1941Requires the dental hygiene board to approve or renew only educational programs that continuously maintain high-quality instruction and, where applicable, prescribed accreditation…Section 1941.5Requires the dental hygiene board to renew approval for educational programs certifying continued compliance and allows announced or unannounced surveys, evaluations, and…Section 1942Defines an extramural dental facility as an off-campus clinical facility under contract with an approved dental-hygiene educational program where dental-hygiene services are…Section 1943Allows the dental hygiene board, before licensure, to deny an examination application for specified misconduct supporting discipline or license denial, unlicensed acts…Section 1944Sets dental-hygiene fee ceilings for applications, licenses, renewals, reviews, providers, facilities, units, and offices, including $5, $25, $100, $150, $250, $500, $750,…Section 1947Allows the dental hygiene board to revoke or suspend licenses issued under this article or chapter to registered dental hygienists, alternative-practice hygienists,…Section 1949Allows the dental hygiene board to revoke or suspend a license, reprimand a licensee, or impose probation for unprofessional conduct, incompetence, gross…Section 1950Allows the dental hygiene board to revoke, suspend, reprimand, or place a licensee on probation for a related criminal conviction, using a…Section 1950.5Defines unprofessional conduct for dental-hygiene licensees to include fraud, unlawful assistance, false-name use, deceptive advertising, excessive treatment, unsafe practice, abandonment, and reporting…Section 1951Allows the dental hygiene board to place a licensee on probation with conditions including remedial training or examination, diagnostic evaluation, practice limits,…Section 1952Defines unprofessional conduct for dental-hygiene licensees to include unlawful possession of controlled substances or dangerous drugs, except possession directed by a licensed…Section 1953Requires registered dental hygienists, alternative-practice hygienists, and extended-functions hygienists who provide a service in a dental office to identify themselves in the…Section 1954Prohibits a dental-hygiene licensee from performing, or claiming ability to perform, professional services beyond the scope of the licensee’s license and competence…Section 1955Requires licensees to provide board-requested authorized patient records within 15 days and health facilities within 30 days, with $250 daily penalties up…Section 1956Defines as unprofessional conduct a dental-hygiene licensee’s direct requirement, office policy, or knowing permission of care that discourages necessary treatment or allows…Section 1957Allows disciplined dental-hygiene licensees to petition for reinstatement or penalty modification after three years for specified revocations or surrenders, two years for…Section 1958Sets misdemeanor penalties of 10 days to one year in jail, a $100–$1500 fine, or both for false titles, license-display failures, reporting…Section 1958.1Bars the dental hygiene board from licensing, retaining, reinstating, or reissuing sex-offender registrants and requires prompt revocation without probation. Exceptions cover terminated…Section 1959Allows a person holding a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended license as a registered dental hygienist, registered dental hygienist in alternative practice, or…Section 1960Sets first-offense penalties of a $200–$3000 fine, up to six months in county jail, or both, and makes later offenses felonies punishable…Section 1961Prohibits willfully practicing, attempting to practice, advertising, or holding oneself out as practicing dental hygiene without a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended license…Section 1962Allows alternative-practice dental hygienists, individually or in qualifying groups, to use an otherwise prohibited practice name with a valid board permit meeting…Section 1963Allows the dental hygiene board to file a complaint for any violation of this article in a court with jurisdiction and to…Section 1964Requires a county superior court, on application by the dental hygiene board, to issue an injunction restraining an unlicensed person from conducting…Section 1965Allows a county superior court, on application by 10 or more persons licensed to practice dental hygiene, to issue an injunction or…Section 1966Establishes legislative intent that the dental hygiene board identify and rehabilitate licensees impaired by dangerous-drug or alcohol abuse through a voluntary diversion…Section 1966.1Establishes dental-hygiene diversion participation as generally voluntary unless ordered as disciplinary probation and allows confidential self-referral when no current investigation exists. An…Section 1966.2Requires each dental-hygiene diversion evaluation committee to evaluate applicants under board guidelines, consider recommendations from board-designated licensee consultants, designate treatment facilities, review…Section 1966.3Allows a diversion evaluation committee to meet in closed session, despite the referenced public-meeting law, to consider reports concerning a dental-hygiene licensee…Section 1966.4Requires every dental-hygiene licensee requesting diversion to agree to cooperate with the treatment program designed by a diversion evaluation committee and to…Section 1966.5Requires a diversion evaluation committee to purge and destroy all participation records after it determines, in its discretion, that a dental-hygiene licensee…Section 1966.6Requires the dental hygiene board to provide representation for anyone sued for defamation over reports or information given to a diversion evaluation…