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KS SB250

Bill

Status

Passed

4/10/2025

Primary Sponsor

Public Health and Welfare

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Allows patients with life-threatening or severely debilitating illnesses to access individualized investigational treatments (including gene therapy and neoantigen vaccines) that are custom-made based on their genetic profile, after exhausting FDA-approved options

  • Requires written informed consent documenting the proposed treatment, potential outcomes including death, and patient financial liability for all treatment costs

  • Protects healthcare providers from license revocation or disciplinary action based solely on recommending individualized investigational treatments to eligible patients

  • Prohibits state officials from blocking eligible patient access and shields manufacturers and providers from private lawsuits if they comply in good faith with the act

  • Requires patient consent and profit-sharing agreements before any commercial application of products developed from a patient's biospecimen

Legislative Description

Enacting the right to try for individualized treatments act to permit a manufacturer to make an individualized investigative treatment available to a requesting patient.

Last Action

Senate Will become law without Governor's signature

4/10/2025

Committee Referrals

Health and Human Services2/20/2025
Public Health and Welfare2/10/2025

Full Bill Text

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