Breast Density Awareness Act

An Act respecting the awareness of screening among women with dense breast tissue

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

Patrick Brown  Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Second reading (Senate), as of Jan. 28, 2015
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment requires the Government of Canada to encourage the use of existing initiatives in order to increase awareness among women about the implications of heterogeneous or dense breast tissue for breast cancer screening, and to assist women and health care providers in making well-informed decisions regarding screening.

Similar bills

C-314 (41st Parliament, 1st session) Breast Density Awareness Act

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-314s:

C-314 (2023) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)
C-314 (2021) Ukrainian Heritage Month Act
C-314 (2016) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (qualifying period)