S 1508 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

A bill to provide for the use of emergency use authorization data and real world evidence gathered during an emergency to support premarket applications for drugs, biological products, and devices, and for other purposes.

Fact sheet

Latest action · Apr 29, 2021 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedApr 29, 2021
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

This bill establishes that certain data and determinations from a request for emergency use authorization for a drug, biological product, or medical device may apply to later regulatory procedures for that product.

Specifically, data generated to support a request for emergency use authorization may constitute valid scientific evidence to be considered for various later submissions to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including a request for market approval.

Also, when granting emergency use authorization for a medical device, if the FDA determines that the device performs certain simple low-risk examinations, that determination shall apply to certain other regulatory submissions unless additional information contradicts that determination.

Cosponsors 2

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Apr 29, 2021.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-LABill CassidyOriginalApr 29, 2021
D-MNTina SmithOriginalApr 29, 2021

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Apr 29, 2021Introduced in Senate
  2. Apr 29, 2021Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Apr 29, 2021Introduced in Senate

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