[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2617 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2617

To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from restricting 
  direct access by health care facilities to medical countermeasures.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 27, 2023

   Mr. Rubio introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from restricting 
  direct access by health care facilities to medical countermeasures.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Treatment Restoration for Every 
American's Trial Act'' or the ``TREAT Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON RESTRICTIONS ON DIRECT ACCESS TO MEDICAL 
              COUNTERMEASURES.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services may not implement any policy 
that would restrict hospitals or other appropriate health care 
facilities from ordering and receiving medical countermeasures, 
including biological products, drugs, and devices, directly from 
manufacturers and distributors of such countermeasures.
    (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``medical 
countermeasure'' has the meaning given the term ``qualified 
countermeasure'' in section 319F-1 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 247d-6a).
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