Healthcare Branch
Colorado Dental Board

Rulemaking Hearing, January 22, 2015

Proposed Changes with Statement of Basis, Purpose, and Authority

Basis and Purpose:  To implement House Bill 14-1227, which went into effect on July 1, 2015 and concerns the continuation of the State Board of Dental Examiners (now the Colorado Dental Board) and other statutory changes to the Dental Practice Law of Colorado (now the Dental Practice Act).  

Statement of Authority:  Pursuant to section 12-35-107(1)(b), C.R.S., the Colorado Dental Board shall “[m]ake, publish, declare, and periodically review reasonable rules as necessary to carry out and make effective the powers and duties of the board as vested in it” by Article 35 of Title 12.