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Senate approves expanded 'right to try' measure to allow individualized investigational treatments
Summary
Senate File 233 (referred to in debate as Senate File 2 33) passed the Senate. The bill expands Iowa's right‑to‑try framework to allow individualized investigational treatments (drugs, biologics or devices) tailored to a patient's genetic profile under certain conditions and with physician attestation and informed consent.
Senate File 233, described by the sponsor as an expansion of Iowa’s 2017 right‑to‑try law, passed the Senate after floor remarks from multiple senators in support.
Senator Alans of Woodbury opened floor discussion, describing the bill as granting patients with life‑threatening or severely debilitating conditions access to individualized investigational treatment — therapies developed specifically for an…
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