Bill Text: IA SF250 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled
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.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-04-13 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 1021. [SF250 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-SF250-Enrolled.html
Senate File 250 - Enrolled SENATE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES (SUCCESSOR TO SF 77) \5 A BILL FOR \1 Senate File 250 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 -1-