Live stream: President Trump signs the "Right to Try Act"

WASHINGTON -- President Trump signs S. 204, the “Right to Try Act” Wednesday afternoon. 

In March, the House passed legislation aimed at giving seriously ill patients increased access to investigational drugs, a bill championed by Vice President Mike Pence.

"Right to Try" is named for Jordan McLinn, a second grader from Indianapolis who advocated in Washington for the bill alongside Pence.

The bill will let patients who are near death, or who have a disease that is likely to lead to severely premature death, potentially access drugs that have gone through only preliminary testing on humans. They would have to be ineligible for a clinical trial and have already tried other available treatments. 

Paste BN is providing live coverage of the bill signing in the player above starting at 12:15 pm ET.

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The Enquirer/Carrie Cochran