Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Improving Access to Safe Medicines Act of 2022”.
Improving Access to Safe Medicines Act of 2022
A BILL
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to require the Attorney General to remove a drug from scheduling within 180 days of a certain date pursuant to the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Expedited removal of a controlled substance from scheduling at the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services
Section 201(j) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 811(j)) is amended—
in paragraph (1)—
by striking “the date described in paragraph (2)” and inserting “the date described in paragraph (3)”; and
by striking “the procedures described in paragraph (3)” and inserting “the procedures described in paragraph (4)”;
by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively; and
by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
“(2) If the Secretary of Health and Human Services recommends that the Attorney General remove any drug from the schedules under this title in accordance with this section and section 202, and the Attorney General determines there is no other legal basis to control the drug under this title, the Attorney General shall, not later than 180 days after the date described in paragraph (3), issue a proposed rule to remove the drug from the schedules in accordance with the procedures set forth in subsection (a).”