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Allows certain Department of Veterans Affairs health care professionals to use telemedicine to prescribe, deliver, or dispense controlled prescription drugs to eligible VA patients without a prior in-person exam if the law’s conditions are met and the VA issues implementing regulations. The measure preserves providers’ obligations under the federal Controlled Substances Act and directs the Secretary to set the regulatory procedures and definitions for covered VA clinicians and telemedicine prescribing.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4279-4280: 1)
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced February 6, 2025 by Steve Womack · Last progress 5 months ago