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S. 1681

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A bill to require persons who undertake Federally funded research and development of drugs to enter into reasonable pricing agreements with the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Committee
Latest Action · July 31, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Congress
115th (2017–2019)
Introduced
July 31, 2017
Cosponsors (0)
None
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This bill prohibits federal agencies and nonprofit entities that conduct federally funded health care research from providing a patent for a drug based on such research until the entity receiving the patent enters into a reasonable pricing agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services.

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