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HOUSE BILL NO. 1340 Offered January 12, 2024 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 54.1-2971.2, relating to Board of Medicine; breast implant patient decision checklist required. ---------- Patron-- Glass ---------- Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 54.1-2971.2 as follows:

§ 54.1-2971.2. Breast implant patient decision checklist required.

A. The Board shall develop a patient decision checklist for patients considering breast implants. Such checklist shall comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements for checklists distributed by breast implant manufacturers. Such checklist shall include information on the risks of potential complications from breast implants, potential development of breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma, increased chance of development of certain autoimmune and connective tissue diseases, and other systemic symptoms associated with breast implants.

B. Before conducting any procedure that involves breast implants, a physician shall deliver to the patient in writing a breast implant patient decision checklist developed pursuant to subsection A and explain the information included therein. No physician shall conduct such procedure unless the patient has signed such breast implant patient decision checklist.