Policies / Policy record
S. 204 — Right to Try Act
Federal · SIGNED / ENACTED
Purpose
Established a federal pathway for eligible patients with life-threatening conditions to access certain investigational drugs outside the traditional approval pathway.
Official summary
The official federal record identifies S. 204 and its enactment as the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017.
ALS and gene-carrier relevance
Included because investigational-treatment and expanded-access policy is a required national topic.
Policy scope and insurance types
- Policy scope
- Clinical trials, Research, Rare disease
- Genetic policy scope
- Not stated
- Insurance types affected
- Not stated
- Policy type
- Bill
- Record type
- Historical Enacted Bill
- Time status
- Historical
- Verification
- Verified
- Discovered from
- Official Legislature
- Status detail
- Public Law 115-176
- Companion bills
- Not stated
- Derived from bill
- Not stated
- Codified as
- Not stated
Jurisdiction and session
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Session
- 115th Congress (2017–2018)
- Topics
- Right to Try, Expanded Access, investigational treatment
- Bill / act number
- S. 204 · Public Law 115-176
- Introduced
- 01-24-2017
- Last action
- 05-30-2018
- Passed House / Assembly
- Not stated
- Passed Senate
- Not stated
- Governor action
- Not stated
- Approved / enacted
- 05-30-2018
- Effective
- 05-30-2018
- Vetoed
- Not stated
Sponsors, cosponsors, and committees
Sponsors
- Sen. Ron Johnson
Cosponsors
No verified names recorded in this policy snapshot.
Committees
No verified names recorded in this policy snapshot.
Legislative support and votes
Vote history
No verified names recorded in this policy snapshot.
Verified organization support
No verified organization support recorded in this policy snapshot.
Verified opposition
No verified organization opposition recorded in this policy snapshot.
Historical timeline
Introduced in the Senate.
Became Public Law 115-176.
Official text and source links
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Last verified: 09-30-2026
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