‘by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 32 MRSA §18345, sub-§2, ¶C, as enacted by PL 2015, c. 429, §21, is amended to read:
(1) Verification of having successfully completed a bachelor's degree or higher in dental hygiene therapy from an educational program that:
(a) Is accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation or a successor organization approved by the board; or
(b) Is a minimum of 4 semesters;
(c) Is consistent with the model curriculum for educating dental hygiene therapists adopted by the American Association of Public Health Dentistry or a successor organization;
(d) Is consistent with existing dental hygiene therapy programs in other states approved by the board; and
(e) Meets the requirements for dental hygiene therapy education programs adopted by board rule;
(2) Verification of a bachelor's degree or higher in dental hygiene, dental hygiene therapy or dental therapy from a school accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation or a successor organization;
(3) Verification of passing a clinical examination and all other examinations required by board rule. The clinical examination must be a comprehensive, competency-based clinical examination approved by the board and administered independently of an institution providing dental hygiene therapy education;
(4) Verification of having engaged in at least 2 years and 2,000 hours of supervised clinical practice under the supervision of a dentist and in conformity with rules adopted by the board, during which supervised clinical practice the applicant is authorized to practice pursuant to paragraph F.
For purposes of meeting the clinical requirements of this subparagraph, an applicant's hours of supervised clinical experience while enrolled in the dental hygiene therapy program under subparagraph (1) may be included as well as hours completed under the supervision of a dentist licensed in another state or a Canadian province, provided that as long as the applicant was operating lawfully under the laws and rules of that state or province; and
(5) A copy of the written practice agreement and standing orders required by section 18377, subsection 3;
Sec. 2. 32 MRSA §18371, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 2015, c. 429, §21, is amended to read:
Sec. 3. 32 MRSA §18377, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 2015, c. 429, §21, is amended to read:
(1) Perform oral health assessments, pulpal disease assessments for primary and young teeth, simple cavity preparations and restorations and simple extractions;
(2) Prepare and place stainless steel crowns and aesthetic anterior crowns for primary incisors and prepare, place and remove space maintainers;
(3) Provide referrals;
(4) Administer local anesthesia and nitrous oxide analgesia;
(5) Perform preventive services;
(6) Conduct urgent management of dental trauma, perform suturing, extract primary teeth and perform nonsurgical extractions of periodontally diseased permanent teeth if authorized in advance by the supervising dentist;
(7) Provide, dispense and administer anti-inflammatories, nonprescription analgesics, antimicrobials, antibiotics and anticaries materials;
(8) Administer radiographs; and
(9) Perform other related services and functions authorized by the supervising dentist and for which the dental hygiene therapist is trained . ; and
(10) Perform the procedures listed in section 18374, subsections 1 and 2.
Sec. 4. 32 MRSA §18377, sub-§3, ¶B, as enacted by PL 2015, c. 429, §21, is amended to read:
Sec. 5. Maine Revised Statutes amended; revision clause. Wherever in the Maine Revised Statutes the words "dental hygiene therapist" appear or reference is made to those words, they are amended to read or mean, as appropriate, "dental therapist," and the Revisor of Statutes shall implement this revision when updating, publishing or republishing the statutes.
Sec. 6. Maine Revised Statutes amended; revision clause. Wherever in the Maine Revised Statutes the words "dental hygiene therapy" appear or reference is made to those words, they are amended to read or mean, as appropriate, "dental therapy," and the Revisor of Statutes shall implement this revision when updating, publishing or republishing the statutes.