A bill to establish a temporary program under which parenteral diacetylmorphine will be made available through qualified pharmacies for the relief of intractable pain due to cancer.
Compassionate Pain Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a 48-month program under which parenteral diacetylmorphine shall be made available through hospital and hospice pharmacies for the relief of pain from terminal cancer (as defined by this Act).
Directs the Secretary to provide for the manufacture of such drug.
Permits physicians registered under the Controlled Substances Act to prescribe such drug.
States that for purposes of such program the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and titles II and III of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 shall not apply with respect to: (1) the importing of opium; and (2) the manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of parenteral diacetylmorphine.
Requires: (1) the Secretary to make program reports and pain management and related National Institutes of Health research reports to specified congressional committees; and (2) the Comptroller General of the United States to make a three-year program report to the appropriate congressional committees.
Clean Bill H.R.5290 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in Lieu.
Resolution Agreed to in House by Voice Vote.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
For Previous Action See H.R.4762.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Report No: 98-689.
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Report No: 98-689.
Placed on Union Calendar No: 388.
Rule Granted Providing an Open Rule with 1 Hour of Debate.
Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.508 Reported to House.
Rule Passed House.
Called up by House by Rule.
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House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: Failed of Passage in House by Yea-Nay Vote: 55 - 355 (Record Vote No: 401).
Roll Call #401 (House)Failed of Passage in House by Yea-Nay Vote: 55 - 355 (Record Vote No: 401).
Roll Call #401 (House)