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Session of 2026
SENATE BILL No. 432
By Committee on Government Efficiency
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AN ACT concerning health professions and practices; relating to the
regulation of dentists; eliminating the minimum personal presence
requirement of a licensee in a dental office owned by such licensee;
amending K.S.A. 65-1435 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 65-1435 is hereby amended to read as follows: 65-
1435. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, it shall be unlawful
for any person or persons to practice or offer to practice dentistry under
any name except such person's own name, which shall be the name used
on the license granted to such person as a dentist as provided in the dental
practices act.
(b) A licensed dentist may use the name of any association,
corporation, clinic, trade name or business name in connection with the
practice of dentistry, as defined in the dental practices act, except that such
name may not misrepresent the dentist to the public as determined by the
Kansas dental board.
(c) Nothing herein contained This section shall not be construed to
prevent two or more licensed dentists from:
(1) From Associating together for the practice of dentistry, each
practice in such person's own proper name; or
(2) from associating together for the practice of dentistry, each as
owners, in a professional corporation, organized pursuant to the
professional corporation law of Kansas , or, each as owners, in a limited
liability company organized pursuant to the Kansas revised limited
liability company act , and using a name that may or may not contain the
proper name of any such person or persons, except that such name may not
misrepresent the dentist to the public and from or in employing nonowning
licensees; or
(3) from associating together with persons licensed to practice
medicine and surgery in a clinic or professional association under a name
that may or may not contain the proper name of any such person or
persons and may contain the word "clinic."
(d) It shall be unlawful, and a licensee may have a license suspended
or revoked, for any licensee to conduct a dental office in the name of the
licensee, or to advertise the licensee's name in connection with any dental
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office or offices, or to associate together for the practice of dentistry with
other licensed dentists in a professional corporation or limited liability
company, under a name that may or may not contain the proper name of
any such person or persons or to associate together with persons licensed
to practice medicine and surgery in a clinic or professional association
under a name that may or may not contain the proper name of any such
person or persons and may contain the word "clinic," unless such licensee
is personally present in the office operating as a dentist or personally
overseeing such operations as are performed in the office or each of the
offices at least 20% of the time patients are being treated in the office or
each of the offices.
(e) The violation of any of the provisions of this section by any
dentist shall subject such dentist to suspension or revocation of a license.
(f) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (d), a licensee shall
be permitted to own two dental offices in addition to the licensee's primary
office location under the following conditions:
(1) The licensee's secondary dental office is located within a 125-mile
radius of the licensee's primary office; and
(2) the licensee's secondary dental office is located in a county with a
population of less than 10,000 according to the 2000 United States census.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 65-1435 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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