A bill aimed at making the public more aware of unsafe mammogram machines will go before the Senate Health Committee on Wednesday.
Senate Bill 148, authored by Sen. Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach, seeks to protect women from mammogram machines that have failed mandatory annual inspections.
SB 148 would require violations found during annual equipment inspections to be posted where patients can more easily read them.
Faulty machines can lead to inaccurate results that give women with tumors a false sense of security, Oropeza argues in her bill.
Wednesday's committee meeting is the first policy review of SB 148, which would increase consumer protection for women obtaining mammograms and staff administering the exam.
Oropeza is a cancer survivor. SB 148 is one of her many pieces of legislation related in one way or another to the disease.
She previously won approval for a bill that banned smoking in cars when minors are present.
This year, she is trying to win approval for bills that would ban smoking on state beaches and in state parks and ban a common manufacturing chemical linked to cancer in California.
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