[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3670 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3670

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

                           February 16, 2022

  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.

    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 lawful prescribing or disbursing 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).
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