Senate committee adopts technical amendment to bill creating pathway for individualized investigational treatments

The Senate Health Committee accepted a technical amendment to Senate Bill 170 during a second hearing that would create a state pathway for individualized investigational treatments, proponents said.

The amendment, offered by Senator Roegner, corrected what Roegner described as a double negative in the bill’s text so the statute would read as intended. "So simple English correction, just corrects that double negative," Roegner said. Committee leadership said there was no objection and the amendment became part of the bill.

The bill’s proponent testimony came from Naomi Lopez, senior fellow in health care policy at the Goldwater Institute, who told…