Session of 2000
HOUSE BILL No. 2990
By Committee on Appropriations
2-16
9 AN ACT
relating to the dental practices act; amending K.S.A. 1999
Supp.
10 65-1466 and repealing
the existing section.
11
12 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Kansas:
13 Section
1. K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 65-1466 is hereby amended to read as
14 follows: 65-1466. (a) (1)
Notwithstanding any other provision of the dental
15 practices act, a not-for-profit corporation
having the status of an organi-
16 zation under 26 United States Code
Annotated 501(c)(3) which is also a
17 facility qualified under subsection (b) of
K.S.A. 65-431 and amendments
18 thereto to select and employ professional
personnel, an indigent health
19 care clinic as defined by the rules and
regulations of the secretary of
20 health and environment, a federally
qualified health center, or a local
21 health department may employ or otherwise
contract with a person li-
22 censed under the dental practices act to
provide dental services to dentally
23 indigent persons.
24
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of the dental
practices act,
25 a federally qualified health center may
employ or otherwise contract with
26 a person licensed under the dental
practices act to provide services to any
27 person.
28 (b) Dentally
indigent persons are those persons who are: (1) Deter-
29 mined to be a member of a family unit
earning at or below 200% of
30 poverty income guidelines based on the
annual update of ``poverty income
31 guidelines'' published in the federal
register by the United States de-
32 partment of health and human services and
are not indemnified against
33 costs arising from medical and hospital
care or dental care by a policy of
34 accident and sickness insurance or an
employee health benefits plan; or
35 (2) eligible for medicaid; or (3) qualified
for Indian health services. This
36 subsection shall not be construed to
prohibit an entity under subsection
37 (a) which enters into an arrangement with a
licensee under the dental
38 practices act for purposes of providing
services to dentally indigent per-
39 sons pursuant to subsection (a) from
defining ``dentally indigent persons''
40 more restrictively than such term is
defined under this subsection.
41 (c) A licensee
under the dental practices act who enters into an ar-
42 rangement with an entity under subsection
(a) to provide dental services
43 pursuant to subsection (a): (1) Shall not
be subject to having the licensee's
2
1 license certificate suspended or
revoked by the board solely as a result of
2 such arrangement; and (2) may not
permit another person who is not
3 licensed in Kansas as a dentist, and
is not otherwise competent, to engage
4 in the clinical practice of
dentistry. No entity under subsection (a) or any
5 other person may direct or interfere
or attempt to direct or interfere with
6 a licensed dentist's professional
judgment and competent practice of
7 dentistry.
8 (d) A
dentist who is classified as ``retired'' by the Kansas dental
board
9 is not required to pay the annual
renewal fee or comply with the dental
10 continuing education requirements if the
dentist elects to provide dental
11 services to the indigent through one of the
entities specified in subsection
12 (a). A ``retired'' dentist providing such
services shall be required to comply
13 with the annual renewal requirements of the
Kansas dental board.
14 (e) The Kansas
dental board may adopt rules and regulations as nec-
15 essary to carry out the provisions of this
section, except that no such rule
16 and regulation shall alter or affect the
intent of paragraph (2) of subsection
17 (a).
18 (f) This section
shall be part of and supplemental to the dental prac-
19 tices act.
20 Sec. 2. K.S.A. 1999 Supp.
65-1466 is hereby repealed.
21 Sec. 3. This act shall
take effect and be in force from and after its
22 publication in the statute book.