The Assembly Health Committee has approved a measure by state Sen. Jenny Oropeza that would require operators of mammogram machines to better inform patients of serious inspection violations.
Senate Bill 148, authored by the Long Beach Democrat, would require medical providers who operate mammogram machines to post notices of serious violations, such as failing routine inspections, in places where patients can see them.
"At critical junctures, women need assurances their potentially life saving diagnostic tools are effective," Oropeza said.
Each year, more than 25,000 California women develop breast cancer, and 4,000 of them die, according to numbers provided by Oropeza's office.
The senator is a cancer survivor.
SB 148 will next be heard by the Assembly Appropriations Committee. No date has yet been set.
The measure has passed the Senate.
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