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HB 1778 Mammography; provider must notify patient about dense breast tissue.
Introduced by: Eileen Filler-Corn | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Mammography results; information about dense breast tissue. Clarifies the conditions under which a mammography services provider must notify a patient of dense breast tissue. The bill provides that such notice must be sent to patients who are determined by the interpreting physician to have heterogeneously dense or extremely dense tissue, as defined in nationally recognized guidelines or systems for breast imagining reporting of mammography screening, including the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System and any equivalent new terms, and modifies the existing language of the notice.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101119D pdf | impact statement
- 01/22/13 House: Committee substitute printed 13104024D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/14/13 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1778ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/13/13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0282) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/08/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101119D
- 01/08/13 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/22/13 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/13 House: Committee substitute printed 13104024D-H1
- 01/23/13 House: Read first time
- 01/24/13 House: Read second time
- 01/24/13 House: Committee substitute agreed to 13104024D-H1
- 01/24/13 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1778H1
- 01/25/13 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/13 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/28/13 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/07/13 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/13 Senate: Read third time
- 02/11/13 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/13 House: Enrolled
- 02/14/13 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1778ER)
- 02/14/13 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/14/13 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/13/13 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 282 (effective 7/1/13)
- 03/13/13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0282)