To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to enhance medical device communications and ensure device cleanliness.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to enhance medical device communications and ensure device cleanliness., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Technology, Agriculture.
Who Benefits and How
health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section H1D56D62A52EB47AB9C726D80E8DCDD66: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Disclosure; and Encouragement of Verification, Innovation, Cleaning, and Efficiency Act of 2025 or the DEVICE Act...
- Section H4399D7AFF915425998202A3678AA3F0B: 2. Reporting requirement for design and reprocessing instruction changes Section 501 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 351) is amended by...
- Section HDC314CE965B24F6F87189B4F9AE50778: 3. Reporting requirement for certain communications to foreign health care providers Section 501 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 351),...
- Section H8B543104610B4DA4904E489FB7A39489: 4. Rapid assessment tests intended to ensure proper reprocessing Section 201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321) is amended— in...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to enhance medical device communications and ensure device cleanliness., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Technology, Agriculture
Primary Purpose
This bill, To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to enhance medical device communications and ensure device cleanliness., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- health care providers and patients
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- health care providers and patients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Lieu (for himself, Ms. Chu, and Ms. Norton) introduced …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → The Secretary identified in the operative section
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a device that— (1)is intended to be used more than one time
a business entity that has a relationship with a second business entity if, directly or indirectly— (A)one business entity controls, or has the power to control, the other business entity
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