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Committee advances revised dental-practice act; bill expands hygienist functions and prompts safety concerns about delegated injections
Summary
House Bill 372 (third substitute) rewrites and modernizes the Dental Practice Act, creates an expanded‑functions certification program for hygienists and assistants overseen by DOPL, and sparked medical testimony expressing safety concerns about delegating botulinum-toxin injections; the committee recommended the bill 4–1.
The Senate Business and Labor Committee voted 4–1 on Feb. 25 to favorably recommend House Bill 372 (third substitute), a comprehensive rewrite of the Dental Practice Act that modernizes definitions, creates an expanded-functions certification program for dental hygienists and assistants and tightens rules to prevent unlicensed third parties from practicing dentistry.
Representative Megan DeFe, sponsor of the bill, said the statute needed modernization and that the rewrite balances patient safety with expanded scope opportunities. "The first goal is to rewrite, update, and clarify the dental practice act...The second aim of the bill is to protect patients from bad actors," DeFe said, adding that the…
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