21st Century Cures Act

21st Century Cures Act
Other short titles	Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Reform Act of 2016; Increasing Choice, Access, and Quality in Health Care for Americans Act
Long title	An Act to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of 21st century cures, and for other purposes.
Enacted by	the 114th United States Congress
Citations
Public law	Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 114–255 (text) (PDF)
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as H.R. 34 by Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1) on January 6, 2015; Committee consideration by Science, Space, and Technology; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Passed the House on January 7, 2015 (Voice); Passed the Senate on October 6, 2016 (Unanimous Consent) with amendment; House agreed to Senate amendment on November 30, 2016 (392-26 Roll call vote 592, via Clerk.House.gov) with further amendment; Senate agreed to House amendment on December 7, 2016 (94-5 Roll call vote 157, via Senate.gov); Signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 13, 2016;

The 21st Century Cures Act is a United States law enacted by the 114th United States Congress in December 2016 and then signed into law on December 13, 2016. It authorized $6.3 billion in funding, mostly for the National Institutes of Health. The act was supported especially by large pharmaceutical manufacturers and was opposed especially by some consumer organizations.

The approval of drugs and devices would be streamlined, according to supporters, and treatments would reach the market more quickly. The argument made by opponents was that it would allow the marketing of riskier or less effective treatments by allowing the approval of drugs and devices on the basis of flimsier evidence, bypassing randomized, controlled trials.

The bill incorporated the Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act, first introduced by then-Congressman Tim Murphy, R-Pa., which increased the availability of psychiatric hospital beds and established a new assistant secretary for mental health and substance use disorders.

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