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Committee introduces strike‑below bill after extensive Dental Practice Act sunset hearing
Summary
After a lengthy hearing with providers and professional groups, the Senate Health & Human Services Committee voted to introduce a strike‑below draft implementing many recommendations from DORA and the Colorado Dental Association; the bill was moved as the committee’s introduction and technical corrections were authorized.
The Senate Health & Human Services Committee advanced a draft bill to implement recommendations from the sunset review of the Colorado Dental Practice Act after hours of testimony from dentists, hygienists, educators and advocacy groups.
Ginny Brown, deputy executive director at the Department of Regulatory Agencies, presented the sunset report and the Department’s recommended changes. The report recommended continuing the Dental Practice Act for nine years and proposed numerous amendments — from authorizing dental hygienists to administer local anesthesia without supervision and expanding limited prescriptive authority, to creating a pathway for internationally trained dentists and changing…
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