US Congress Senate Bill 767 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Introduced on April 1 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-04-01 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Independent Drug Education and Outreach Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, to award grants or contracts for: (1) the development and production of educational materials concerning the evidence available on the relative safety, effectiveness, and cost of prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs, and nondrug interventions for treating selected conditions, to be distributed and presented to health care providers who prescribe such drugs and their patients; and (2) the development and implementation of a program to appropriately train and deploy health professionals to distribute such materials to, and otherwise educate, physicians and other drug prescribers concerning such drugs and interventions. Requires that grantees receive no support from any entity that manufactures products used to treat the medical conditions discussed.

Independent Drug Education and Outreach Act of 2009

Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]

Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]

Sen. Edward Kennedy [D-MA]

Sen. Herb Kohl [D-WI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-04-01		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB1859 (Same As) 2009-04-02 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/767/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/s767/BILLS-111s767is.pdf