Health care; creating the Right to Try for Individualized Treatments Act; authorizing individualized investigational treatments for eligible patients. Effective date.

Summary

The bill requires any hospital or ambulatory surgical center licensed by the State Department of Health to adopt and enforce a policy that uses surgical smoke evacuation equipment whenever a procedure is likely to generate smoke. The goal is to protect patients, staff, and anyone in the operating room from inhaling harmful smoke and bio‑aerosols. The law takes effect on November 1, 2025.

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