S. 832

Summary

S. 832, the EPIC Act of 2025, was introduced in the Senate on Mar 4, 2025 by Sen. Thom Tillis (R) with 7 co-sponsors. It was referred to Finance, and last saw action on Mar 4, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Record

Text

S. 832 has 7 co-sponsors.

119 S832 IS: Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures Act of 2025
 U.S. Senate
 2025-03-04
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 Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
 II  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  S. 832  IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES   March 4, 2025   Mr. Tillis  (for himself,  Mr. Budd ,  Mrs. Blackburn ,  Mr. Daines , and  Mr. Lankford ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the  Committee on Finance    A BILL
To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to equalize the negotiation period between small-molecule and biologic candidates under the Drug Price Negotiation Program.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures Act of 2025   or the   EPIC Act of 2025  .
2.
Equalizing the negotiation period between small-molecule and biologic candidates under the Drug Price Negotiation Program
Section 1192(e)(1)(A)(ii) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1320f–1(e)(1)(A)(ii) ) is amended—
(1)
by striking  year, at least 7  and inserting “year—
(I)
for initial price applicability years 2026 and 2027, at least 7
  ; and
(2)
by adding at the end the following:
(II)
for initial price applicability year 2028 and each subsequent initial price applicability year, at least 11 years will have elapsed since the date of such approval; and
  .

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CRS Summary

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Sponsors

Sen. Thom Tillis (R) sponsors S. 832, and 7 members have co-sponsored it, 4 of them from the day it was introduced.

Thom Tillis

Sen. · R–NC · Sponsor

Introduced Mar 4, 2025

Marsha Blackburn

Sen. · R–TN · Co-sponsor

Joined Mar 4, 2025 · Original

Ted Budd

Sen. · R–NC · Co-sponsor

Joined Mar 4, 2025 · Original

Steve Daines

Sen. · R–MT · Co-sponsor

Joined Mar 4, 2025 · Original

James Lankford

Sen. · R–OK · Co-sponsor

Joined Mar 4, 2025 · Original

John Curtis

Sen. · R–UT · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 10, 2025

Jim Banks

Sen. · R–IN · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 29, 2025

Roger Marshall

Sen. · R–KS · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 29, 2025

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Committees

S. 832 went before 1 committee: Finance.

Finance

Finance

Referred To · Mar 4, 2025 · 902 Bills

Actions

S. 832 has taken 2 actions since Mar 4, 2025.

Votes

S. 832 has not gone to a roll call.

Titles

S. 832 goes by 4 titles, 2 of them short titles.

• EPIC Act of 2025 — Display Title
• EPIC Act of 2025 — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures Act of 2025 — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to equalize the negotiation period between small-molecule and biologic candidates under the Drug Price Negotiation Program. — Official Title as Introduced

Lobbying

34 clients hired 40 firms and 248 registered lobbyists who named S. 832 in 196 quarterly filings, 2025 to 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Trade (domestic/foreign), Budget/Appropriations, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Pharmacy, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace.

Clients

Who paid to be heard, by how many filings named the bill. The 20 that filed most often, of 34.

Firms

Registrants who filed on the bill, by filings.

Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill. The 20 named most often, of 248.

Filings

The documents themselves, on the Senate’s Lobbying Disclosure site, largest reported first.

Classification

The Congressional Research Service files S. 832 under Health, one of its 31 policy areas.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; S. 832’s is Health.

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