On February 11, 2015, the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the following bipartisan public health bills:
- H.R. 471, Ensuring Patient Access to Effective Drug Enforcement Act (to improve enforcement efforts regarding prescription drug diversion and abuse);
- H.R. 639, Improving Regulatory Transparency for New Medical Therapies Act, as amended (to amend the Controlled Substances Act to improve the efficiency, transparency, and consistency of the Drug Enforcement Agency's process for scheduling new drugs);
- H.R. 647, Access to Life-Saving Trauma Care for All Americans Act (to reauthorize language from the Public Health Service Act to fund trauma care centers); and
- H.R. 648, Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act (to reauthorize grants supporting state and rural development of trauma systems and authorize new regionalized emergency care model pilot projects).
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