The project will still be analyzed in 4 commissions; To become law, it needs to be passed in the House and Senate
AD approved a proposal that ensures people with autism the full access to evidence -based therapeutic interventions and regulated by the Ministry of Health.
The text alters the National Protection of the Rights of the Person with Tea (Autistic Spectrum Disorder).
The commission approved the replacement text of the rapporteur, deputy (PSD-RR), to the deputy (PP-AL). The rapporteur version expands the scope of the original proposal.
The project focuses on access to ABA treatment (behavior -applied analysis), a therapy that, according to the rapporteur, is already offered in public health services to people with autism.
Zé Haroldo Cathedral highlighted the need for TEA treatments to have the Ministry of Health’s endorsement, as the approved text indicates. “The process aims to ensure the effectiveness and safety of treatments, as well as the cost-benefit and the budgetary impact.”these.
Next Steps
The project is conclusively and will still be analyzed by the health committees; of finance and taxation; and constitution and justice and citizenship. To become law, it needs to be passed by the House and the Senate.
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