# 119-s-4440: Clinical Trial Modernization Act

119-s-4440, Clinical Trial Modernization Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC] (R-SC); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-05-23).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-4440
- Congress: 119
- Title: Clinical Trial Modernization Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-04-29
- Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC] (R-SC)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-05-23

## Summary

**Modernize clinical trials and reduce participation barriers for underrepresented populations.** This bill would fund community outreach and training, let sponsors cover participant expenses and provide needed digital health tools, and create legal and tax protections to boost diverse enrollment. - Families and participants: It would allow sponsors to remunerate participants for trial expenses like travel, transportation, and meals and to provide digital health technologies when necessary. Payments must be available to all study participants and aim to include people from varied demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic groups, including rural communities. - Community clinical sites and investigators: The bill would authorize grants and contracts to community health centers, academic health centers, rural sites, and other facilities for education, recruitment, multilingual materials, and training to increase the number of underrepresented health care personnel who serve as investigators. - Sponsors and manufacturers: It would create limits on civil monetary and false claims liability for sponsor payment of patient cost-sharing when eight conditions are met. It would also add a tax rule that excludes up to $2,000 of participant remuneration from gross income.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] (D-VA), 2026-04-29T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Exclude some trial payments from tax: benefit, high. If enacted, you would be able to exclude up to $2,000 per taxable year of payments you receive for taking part in an approved clinical trial from your taxable income. The exclusion would apply only to payments from approved clinical trials and would start for taxable years beginning after the law t…
- Grants to boost trial outreach: benefit, low. If enacted, the HHS Secretary would be able to award grants and enter contracts to fund community education, outreach, recruitment, and training for drug and device clinical trials that focus on conditions affecting underrepresented groups. Grants could pay for work with community health centers, t…
- More help paying trial costs: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would let sponsors and others give payments to cover trial-related expenses like travel, transportation, and meals for all study participants, and allow free provision of necessary digital health tools to participants. It would add Anti‑Kickback exceptions for those expense pay…

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## Sources
- [119-s-4440 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4440)

## Related
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- [119-s-2651: ROAD to Housing Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2651)
- [119-s-1686: Neighborhood Homes Investment Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1686)
- [119-s-199: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-199)
- [119-s-2142: GOLDEN DOME Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2142)
- [119-s-558: Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-558)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4440 (as of 2026-05-23).