BENEFIT Act of 2021
Summary
Better Empowerment Now to Enhance Framework and Improve Treatments Act of 2021 or the BENEFIT Act of 2021 This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider relevant patient-focused drug development data, such as data from patient preference studies and patient-reported outcome data, in the risk-benefit assessment framework used in the process for approving new drugs. After a new drug application has been approved, the FDA's public statement about how it used patient experience data shall include a description of how such data was considered in the risk-benefit assessment framework.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jul 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jul 16, 2021
Last action Jul 19, 2021
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Committee
2
Jul 19, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Jul 16, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
lower
Jul 16, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 17 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Doris O. Matsui
DDemocratic
Co
Brad R. Wenstrup
RRepublican
Co
Brian Higgins
DDemocratic
Co
Brian K. Fitzpatrick
RRepublican
Co
Darren Soto
DDemocratic
Co
Don Bacon
RRepublican
Co
Doug LaMalfa
RRepublican
Co
Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
Co
Emanuel Cleaver
DDemocratic
Co
Jeff Fortenberry
RRepublican
Co
Jenniffer González-Colón
RRepublican
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