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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 530
BY SENATOR BROOME
DENTISTRY. Provides relative to the employment of persons licensed by the Louisiana
State Board of Dentistry by non-profit entities eligible for certain federal grants. (gov sig)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 37:797, relative to the Louisiana State Board of Dentistry; to provide for the2
employment of dentists by certain non-profit entities eligible for certain federal3
grants; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 37:797 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
§797. Employment or contracting with certain non-profit entities7
No provision in this Chapter shall be construed to prohibit any person8
licensed under the provisions of this Chapter from being an employee or9
independent contractor of a non-profit entity eligible to receive grants under10
Section 330 of the Public Health Services Act (42 U.S.C. §245b) or its successor.11
Section 2. The provisions of this Act are procedural and not substantive and are12
enacted to clarify the provisions of Chapter 9 of Title 37 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes13
of 1950. This Act is declared to be interpretive, remedial, curative, and procedural and,14
therefore, should be applied retroactively as well as prospectively.15
Section 3. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not16
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature17 SB NO. 530
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by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If1
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become2
effective on the day following such approval.3
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Greg Waddell.
DIGEST
Present law provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of dentistry.
Proposed law provides that no provision in present law shall be construed to prohibit any
person licensed under the provisions of present law from being an employee or independent
contractor of a non-profit entity eligible to receive grants under Section 330 of the Public
Health Services Act (42 U.S.C. §245b) or its successor.
Proposed law further provides that it is procedural and not substantive, and should be applied
retroactively as well as prospectively.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Amends R.S. 37:797)