RICHMOND — The first bill sponsored by Del. Scott Garrett, R-Lynchburg, sailed out of the House of Delegates on a 99-0 vote Monday.
The measure would update books that doctors can use for prescribing medications to cancer patients. The books are called standard medical reference cancer compendia, and state code mentioning them has become obsolete “as new treatments have been discovered,” Garrett said.
His legislation would help ensure that doctors can prescribe medication that might help a cancer patient, even though the patient’s type of cancer isn’t the same one the drug was designed to treat, Garrett said.
The measure now goes to the Senate.
Garrett, a freshman legislator, sponsored two other bills this year. One bill failed in committee, and the other, Garrett said Monday, “was in limbo” after being referred to the House Appropriations Committee because it would cost the state $1.2 million a year in tax credits.
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