[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5481 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5481

To clarify that agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services 
    do not have the authority to regulate the practice of medicine.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 11, 2024

  Mr. Johnson 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 clarify that agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services 
    do not have the authority to regulate the practice of medicine.

    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 ``Right to Treat Act''.

SEC. 2. SCOPE OF AUTHORITIES.

    (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b) and notwithstanding any 
other provision of law--
            (1) no Federal agency, including the Food and Drug 
        Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the 
        Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall have the 
        authority to regulate the practice of medicine; and
            (2) no Federal law, rule, regulation, or policy shall 
        prohibit or restrict the prescription or disbursement for an 
        unapproved use of any drug that is approved by the Food and 
        Drug Administration, or that is available pursuant to section 
        561B of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 
        360bbb-0a).
    (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this Act shall be construed 
to affect any Federal law, rule, regulation, or policy that restricts 
abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, mercy killing, coercive family 
planning, female genital mutilation, or gender transition medical 
interventions.
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