119-s1830

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1830 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 1830

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

 May 21, 2025

 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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