This bill creates a statutory right for people to obtain FDA-approved medicines and for health care providers to prescribe, provide, or give information about those medicines. It defines key terms and says these rights cannot be limited by rules that single out or make it harder to get FDA-approved medicines. The bill preserves the FDA's authority to approve or license drugs. It also says federal and state rules must follow this act unless a law is explicitly excluded, but it does not change rules about what insurance plans must cover.
If this becomes law, individuals would have a clear right to seek FDA-approved medicines without being blocked by rules that target those medicines or the providers who offer them. Health care providers would have a right to prescribe or provide such medicines and related information. The Attorney General and private parties (including providers and patients) could sue to stop state or other actions that the bill says unlawfully limit these rights.
No publicly available information on overall federal or state budget effects. The text allows courts to award litigation costs and reasonable attorney's fees to prevailing plaintiffs, and permits equitable relief such as injunctions. The bill does not include budget estimates or specific funding provisions.
The bill states its purposes are to give a clear, comprehensive right to FDA-approved medicines and to let people obtain and providers give those medicines and related services and information.
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