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                                                                  SB 1199
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          Date of Hearing:   August 8, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                    SB 1199 (Dutton) - As Amended:  June 25, 2012 

          Policy Committee:                             HealthVote:18-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          Yes    Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill allows radiologic technologists (RTs) and specified 
          nuclear medicine technologists to, in the administration of 
          contrast materials for radiologic and nuclear medicine imaging, 
          use a saline-based solution that is in accordance with specified 
          protocols.
           
          FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible state fiscal effect.

           COMMENTS  

           Rationale  . The California Radiological Society is the sponsor of 
          this bill.  According to the author, this bill is necessary to 
          clarify that an RT is able to administer saline-based solutions 
          in accordance with hospital or imaging facility protocol.  In 
          some patients, it is necessary to inject a saline-based solution 
          related to the contrast injection in order to ensure patient 
          safety and comfort.  The sponsor points out that although it is 
          not the standard of practice in all radiology settings to use 
          saline-based solution, in situations where necessary, the 
          radiology community would like to clarify statute and allow for 
          this possibility.     

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Lisa Murawski / APPR. / (916) 319-2081