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Sponsor: Pete Sessions (Republican-TX)March 17, 2026

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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Lets patients with life-threatening diseases get new medicines and clinical trials faster from trusted countries.

This bill would speed up how quickly new medicines and clinical trials for immediately life-threatening diseases become available in the U.S. It would let the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accept approvals from trusted international health agencies, rather than requiring a full, separate U.S. review. This means patients could get access to treatments sooner.

What Would Change

Today, drugs and clinical trials for immediately life-threatening diseases must go through a full, separate review process with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), even if they've been approved by other trusted international health agencies. After this bill, the FDA would be able to accept approvals from specific international authorities for medicines and clinical trials for immediately life-threatening diseases, making decisions within 30 days.

Key Provisions

Lets the FDA quickly approve certain medicines for immediately life-threatening diseases if they are already approved by trusted international health agencies.
Requires the FDA to decide on these fast-track medicine approvals within 30 days of receiving a request.
Lets drug makers start clinical trials in the U.S. for immediately life-threatening diseases if those trials are already approved by trusted international health agencies.
Requires the FDA to decide on these fast-track clinical trial approvals within 30 days of receiving a request.
Allows the FDA to pull back these fast-track approvals if new safety concerns arise or if the international approval is withdrawn.

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