SB 431 -- INFORMED CONSENT FOR EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS

SPONSOR:  Gibbons (Threlkeld)

COMMITTEE ACTION:  Voted "do pass by consent" by the Committee on
Health Care Policy by a vote of 14 to 0.

Current law specifies persons who may give consent for treatment
at a teaching hospital using an experimental drug or treatment
when a patient is incapable of giving consent.  This bill revises
the language of the statute so it applies to such treatment by a
teaching hospital.

FISCAL NOTE:  No impact on state funds.

PROPONENTS:  Supporters say that the bill provides an additional
option for patients to receive experimental medical treatments in
a non-hospital setting.

Testifying for the bill were Senator Gibbons; Washington
University School of Medicine; and Missouri Hospital Association.

OPPONENTS:  There was no opposition voiced to the committee.

Joseph Deering, Legislative Analyst

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated July 25, 2003 at 10:13 am