Veterans Health Administration Novel Therapeutics Preparedness Act

This bill would create an Office of Novel Therapeutics within the Veterans Health Administration to set national policy, clinical standards, and training rules for new treatments under review by the Food and Drug Administration, such as certain psychedelic-assisted therapies for mental health conditions. The Office would plan how VA facilities could offer these treatments if approved, including staffing, space, and safety monitoring. The bill would set up a program to test these treatments in VA care, allow the VA to name centers of excellence, and create a veteran advisory committee. The VA would have to coordinate with other federal agencies, report to Congress every year, and submit a national preparedness strategy within 180 days.

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Sponsors

• Tim Sheehy Republican sponsor
• 3 cosponsors