Access to Affordable Medicines Act
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Access to Affordable Medicines Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide that an application for a generic drug the proposed labeling of which is different from the labeling at the time the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) evaluates the application shall be eligible for approval (and such drug shall not be considered misbranded) if: (1) the revision has been approved by the Secretary within 60 days of the expiration of the patent or exclusivity period for the drug; (2) the Secretary has not determined the applicable labeling text when such period expires; (3) the labeling revision does not include a change to the warnings section; (4) the Secretary does not deem that the continued presence in commerce of the labeling before the revision adversely impacts the safe use of the drug; and (5) the sponsor of the application agrees to submit revised labeling not later than 60 days after the notification of any changes required by the Secretary.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1778: Access to Affordable Medicines Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1778/
"S. 1778: Access to Affordable Medicines Act." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1778/.
S. 1778, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1778/.
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