S-3134

   Amend Senate File 250 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, by striking lines 9 through 33 and inserting: 
   <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.  Page 2, line 2, after <paragraph “b”.> by inserting <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.  Page 2, after line 7 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.>
   4.  Title page, line 2, after <patients> by inserting <, and including effective date provisions>
   5.  By renumbering as necessary.

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MARK SEGEBART