General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6292
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 1457
*01457*
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. CANDELORA, 86th Dist. REP. KOKORUDA, 101st Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 6292
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 1457
*01457*
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. CANDELORA, 86th Dist.
REP. KOKORUDA, 101st Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE "RIGHT TO TRY" INVESTIGATIONAL TREATMENTS AND DRUGS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to allow (1) terminally ill patients to request access to treatment and drugs that have passed the first clinical trial stage of development but have not received final approval by the federal Food and Drug Administration, and (2) physicians, hospitals and manufacturers of investigational drugs, products and devices to make such treatment, drugs, products and devices available to terminally ill patients without being subject to prosecution.
Statement of Purpose:
To allow terminally ill patients the "right to try" experimental treatments and drugs.