California Health and Safety Code

§ 1264

HSC § 1264 Effective Jan 1, 2005Div. 2 · Ch. 2 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)Any health facility licensed under Section 1250 that provides prenatal screening ultrasound to detect congenital heart defects shall require that the ultrasound be performed by a sonographer who is nationally certified in obstetrical ultrasound by the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS), nationally certified in cardiac sonography by Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI), or credentialed in sonography by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT).

(b)For purposes of this section, the following shall apply:

(1)A sonographer is also known as an “ultrasound technologist” or “sonologist.”

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 770, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2005. Section operative July 1, 2006, by its own provisions.