Bill Text: TX HB2102 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the requirement that certain mammography reports contain information regarding supplemental breast cancer screening.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2102 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2102-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the requirement that certain mammography reports contain information regarding supplemental breast cancer screening.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2102 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2102-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hernandez Luna, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) | H.B. No. 2102 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2011; | ||
May 12, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 20, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; | ||
May 20, 2011, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2102 | By: Ellis |
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relating to the requirement that certain mammography reports | ||
contain information regarding supplemental breast cancer | ||
screening. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as Henda's Law. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 86, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 86.013 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 86.013. INFORMATION ON SUPPLEMENTAL BREAST CANCER | ||
SCREENING. (a) On completion of a mammogram, a mammography | ||
facility certified by the United States Food and Drug | ||
Administration or by a certification agency approved by the United | ||
States Food and Drug Administration shall provide to the patient | ||
the following notice: | ||
"If your mammogram demonstrates that you have dense breast | ||
tissue, which could hide abnormalities, and you have other risk | ||
factors for breast cancer that have been identified, you might | ||
benefit from supplemental screening tests that may be suggested by | ||
your ordering physician. | ||
"Dense breast tissue, in and of itself, is a relatively | ||
common condition. Therefore, this information is not provided to | ||
cause undue concern, but rather to raise your awareness and to | ||
promote discussion with your physician regarding the presence of | ||
other risk factors, in addition to dense breast tissue. | ||
"A report of your mammography results will be sent to you and | ||
your physician. You should contact your physician if you have any | ||
questions or concerns regarding this report." | ||
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, this section does not | ||
create a cause of action or create a standard of care, obligation, | ||
or duty that provides a basis for a cause of action. | ||
(c) The information required by this section or evidence | ||
that a person violated this section is not admissible in a civil, | ||
judicial, or administrative proceeding. | ||
SECTION 3. A mammography facility is not required to comply | ||
with the requirements of Section 86.013, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
added by this Act, until January 1, 2012. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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