Ms. Bergalis has been much seen on television news and talk programs, arguing for mandatory disclosure.

Not everyone is in favor of mandatory disclosure.

Under the new law, hospitals eliminated the consent forms and agreed to mandatory disclosure.

For one- and two-family houses, mandatory disclosure to buyers would begin in 1993.

Its guiding principle has been that the best answer to bad information is the mandatory disclosure of complete information.

The issue of mandatory disclosure has been bitterly debated in New York and across the country for years.

But he rejected any mandatory disclosure, a view largely shared by other oil companies.

Before the mandatory disclosure began this month, the state had already required hospitals to ask women whether they wanted to know the test results.

More than half the states have such mandatory disclosures that apply to structural or mechanical problems, according to real estate industry officials.

They also urged more mandatory disclosure of financial information on bonds trading in the secondary market.