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Committee hears brief testimony in favor of updating state breast‑density reporting to match federal rule
Summary
Senate Bill 1084 would bring Texas’ breast density reporting law into conformance with a recent federal final rule under the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). The bill would standardize the patient and provider language about dense breast tissue and remove redundant statements to reduce confusion; medical societies and a radiologist told
Senate Bill 1084 would amend Texas law (commonly called Hinda’s Law in testimony) to conform state breast density patient and provider notification language to the FDA’s recently issued final rule under the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). The committee took invited testimony from a practicing radiologist who said the change would standardize verbiage and reduce contradictory statements in reports.
Doctor Tilden Chiles, a radiologist speaking for the Texas Radiological Society and the Texas Medical Association, said the federal MQSA rule specifies exact language to inform patients and clinicians about breast density and its association with increased risk of breast cancer. “Updating Hinda's law will eliminate the need for two statements of breast density to be included in each mammogram report, thereby reducing the potential for confusion by the patients and their healthcare providers,” Chiles testified. He described supplemental screening options including ultrasound, contrast‑enhanced mammography and MRI and urged alignment with federal language.
The committee left SB 1084 pending for public testimony later in the hearing.
