Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Treatment Restoration for Every American's Trial Act” or the “TREAT Act”.
Treatment Restoration for Every American's Trial Act
A BILL
To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from restricting direct access by health care facilities to medical countermeasures.
Sec. 2 Prohibition on restrictions on direct access to medical countermeasures
In general— Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may not implement any policy that would restrict hospitals or other appropriate health care facilities from ordering and receiving medical countermeasures, including biological products, drugs, and devices, directly from manufacturers and distributors of such countermeasures.
Definition— In this section, the term medical countermeasure has the meaning given the term qualified countermeasure in section 319F–1 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–6a).