Bill Text: IA SF250 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act establishing a notification requirement for mammogram reports to patients, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 77.) Effective 4-13-17.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-04-13 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 1021. [SF250 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF250-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 250 - Enrolled




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                              BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN
                                  RESOURCES

                              (SUCCESSOR TO SF 77)
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                             AN ACT
 ESTABLISHING A NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT FOR MAMMOGRAM
    REPORTS TO PATIENTS, AND INCLUDING EFFECTIVE DATE
    PROVISIONS.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 136C.3, subsection 10, Code 2017, is
 amended to read as follows:
    10.  a.  Adopt rules specifying the minimum training and
 performance standards for an individual using a radiation
 machine for mammography, and other rules necessary to
 implement section 136C.15. The rules shall complement federal
 requirements applicable to similar radiation machinery and
 shall not be less stringent than those federal requirements.
    b.  (1)  Adopt rules, in collaboration with appropriate
 stakeholders, to require that, by January 1, 2018, a facility
 at which mammography services are performed shall include
 information on breast density in mammogram reports sent to all
 mammography patients, pursuant to regulations implementing the
 federal Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992, Pub. L.
 No. 102=539, as amended. The mammogram report shall include
 information on a patient's breast density, as categorized by
 an interpreting physician at the facility based on standards
 as defined in nationally recognized guidelines or systems for
 breast imaging reporting of mammography screening, including
 the breast imaging reporting and data system of the American
 college of radiology. For patients categorized as having
 heterogeneously dense breasts or extremely dense breasts, or
 an equivalent determination by another nationally recognized
 density gradient system, the report to the patient shall
 include evidence=based information on dense breast tissue, the
 increased risk associated with dense breast tissue, and the
 effects of dense breast tissue on screening mammography.
    (2)  Nothing in this paragraph "b" shall be construed to
 modify the existing liability of a facility where mammography
 services are performed beyond the duty to provide the
 information set forth in this paragraph "b". Notwithstanding
 any other provision of law to the contrary, this paragraph "b"
  shall not create a cause of action or create a standard of
 care, obligation, or duty that provides grounds for a cause of
 action.
    (3)  Nothing in this paragraph "b" shall be deemed to require
 a notice or the provision of information that is inconsistent
 with the provisions of the federal Mammography Quality
 Standards Act of 1992, Pub. L. No. 102=539, as amended, or any
 regulations promulgated pursuant to that Act.
    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.


                                                                                            JACK WHITVER


                                                                                            LINDA UPMEYER


                                                                                            W. CHARLES SMITH


                                                                                            TERRY E. BRANSTA

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