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<item congress="115" measure-type="s" measure-number="1681" measure-id="id115s1681" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2017-07-31" update-date="2019-03-19">
<title>A bill to require persons who undertake Federally funded research and development of drugs to enter into reasonable pricing agreements with the Secretary of Health and Human Services.</title>
<summary summary-id="id115s1681v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2019-03-19">
<action-date>2017-07-31</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>This bill prohibits federal agencies and nonprofit entities that conduct federally funded health care research from providing a patent for a drug based on such research until the entity receiving the patent enters into a reasonable pricing agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services. </p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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