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House approves bill requiring separate consent for pelvic exams under anesthesia
Utah House of Representatives · March 12, 2019
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Summary
The House passed first-substitute Senate Bill 188 to require an express, standalone consent form for pelvic-region exams under anesthesia and allow disciplinary action for practitioners who fail to obtain it; bill passed 69-0.
Representative Coleman presented first substitute Senate Bill 188, describing it as a response to revelations that pelvic-region examinations have sometimes been performed under anesthesia without separate, explicit consent. "This is not okay," Coleman said, urging the measure to require an express consent form in large font and to require patients to…
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