GIVE KIDS A CHANCE ACT

Saving kids’ lives at zero cost to taxpayers

Endorsements
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KIDS SHOULD HAVE THE SAME CHANCE AS ADULTS TO BEAT CANCER
Finding new combinations of cancer drugs is the best way to find new cures.

From 2020 to 2023,  the FDA approved 40 combinations of cancer drugs for adults . . . and 2 combinations of cancer drugs for kids.

   
PASSED IN THE HOUSE IN THE 117th CONGRESS
The Give Kids a Chance Act will save kids’ lives at no cost to taxpayers. It was included in last Congress’ FDA PDUFA bill, HR 7667, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support of 392 to 28.  However, the Senate companion to the FDA PDUFA bill was passed “clean,” stripped of riders including the Give Kids a Chance Act. Representatives McCaul and Eshoo, and Senators Bennet and Rubio have reintroduced the Give Kids a Chance Act with the same language in this 118th Congress.

AMENDS THE RACE FOR CHILDREN ACT & THE PEDIATRIC RESEARCH EQUITY ACT (PREA)
The Give Kids a Chance Act authorizes the FDA to direct companies to add to their required pediatric studies of new cancer drugs (under the RACE for Children Act) a second drug that they already own or that is a generic.

COSTS TAXPAYERS ZERO
The Give Kids a Chance Act is a bill ready to be passed into law.  It is consensus language with no know stakeholder objectors and with support from the FDA. It costs taxpayers zero.