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SB1120 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet
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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session
AMENDED
FACT SHEET FOR
S.B. 1120
radiation
protection systems; installation requirement
Purpose
Effective July 1, 2027, requires
hospitals that perform cardiac catheterization procedures involving real-time
x-ray imaging to ensure that at least 50 percent of the procedure rooms are
equipped with a radiation protection system, as specified.
Background
Health care facilities utilize comprehensive sets of
measures to prevent worker injury and negative health effects from exposure to
high radiation levels.
Control
measures, including engineering controls such as shielding with lead aprons,
administrative controls such as monitoring and access restrictions and
personal
protective equipment,
function to
protect workers by reducing the radiation dose, limiting time exposure and
preventing contamination
(
OSHA
).
Health care
personnel present in a procedure room using ionizing radiation must utilize
either protective aprons or whole-body protective barriers with a minimum
lead-equivalent thickness of 0.25 millimeters to reduce occupational radiation
exposure. Additionally, medical personnel must wear both badge type dosimeters
and direct reading dosimeters during radiographic procedures to monitor and
document individual radiation dose and support compliance with applicable
occupational exposure limits (
A.A.C.
R9-7-604
and
R9-7-1130
).
There is no
anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation.
Provisions
1.
Requires each hospital
that performs cardiac
catheterization procedures involving real-time x-ray imaging to ensure that at
least 50 percent of the rooms in which the procedures occur are equipped with a
radiation protection system.
2.
Deems
a hospital to have satisfied the radiation protection system installation
requirement if the hospital:
a)
issues a purchase order for radiation protection systems for at least 50
percent of the applicable procedure rooms by July 1, 2027; and
b)
installs
systems by December 31, 2027.
3.
Defines
purchase order
as a binding document that is issued by a
hospital requesting a vendor to deliver the described equipment at a specific
price and that obligates the hospital to pay the vendor on delivery and
acceptance of the equipment or in accordance with the terms of the purchase
order.
4.
Defines
radiation protection system
as a shielding system that is
designed to protect against scatter or direct ionizing radiation exposure, that
provides protection equal to or greater than the shielding effectiveness of a
0.25 millimeter lead-equivalent apron and that includes
real-time dosimetry to measure radiation exposure to health professionals
throughout an ionizing radiation medical procedure.
5.
Becomes effective on July 1, 2027.
Amendments Adopted by Committee
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Removes outpatient surgical centers and other health care
institutions from the radiation protection system installation requirement.
Amendments Adopted by
Committee of the Whole
1.
Applies the radiation protection system requirement to hospitals that
perform cardiac catheterization procedures using real-time x-ray imaging.
2.
Deems
a hospital to have satisfied the radiation protection system installation
requirement if the hospital:
a)
issues a purchase order for radiation protection systems for at least 50
percent of the applicable procedure rooms by July 1, 2027; and
b)
installs
systems by December 31, 2027.
3.
Defines
purchase order
.
4.
Makes conforming changes.
Senate Action
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SB1120 - 572R - S Ver
Senate Engrossed
radiation protection
systems; installation requirement
State of Arizona
Senate
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
SENATE BILL 1120
AN
ACT
Amending title 36, chapter 4, article 2, Arizona
Revised Statutes, by adding section 36-434.03; relating to health care
institutions.
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Be it
enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 36, chapter 4, article 2,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 36-434.03, to read:
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36-434.03.
Radiation protection systems; installation requirement;
definitions
A. On or before July 1, 2027, each
hospital that performs cardiac catheterization procedures involving real-time
x-ray imaging shall ensure that at least fifty percent of the procedure
rooms in which these procedures occur are equipped with a radiation protection
system.
B. A hospital
that issues a purchase order for radiation protection systems for at least
fifty percent of the applicable procedure rooms on or before July 1, 2027 and
that installs those radiation protection systems not later than December 31,
2027 satisfies the requirement prescribed in subsection A of this section.
C. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Purchase order" means a
binding document that is issued by a hospital requesting a vendor to deliver
the described equipment at a specific price and that obligates the hospital to
pay the vendor on delivery and acceptance of the equipment or in accordance
with the terms of the purchase order.
2. "radiation protection
system" means a shielding system that is designed to protect against
scatter or direct ionizing radiation exposure, that provides protection equal
to or greater than the shielding effectiveness of a .25 millimeter lead-equivalent
apron and that includes real-time dosimetry to measure radiation exposure
to health professionals throughout an ionizing radiation medical procedure.
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