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The Magic for Maddie community is committed to finding as many ways as possible to honor Maddie and turn their pain into purpose.
While supporting research for a cure and families in the fight are our primary efforts, we are also advocating with state and federal policy makers to fund and incentivize the research and development of medicines for pediatric cancers.
We would love for you to be part of this effort.
Federal Legislation
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Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act: Improves access to specialized care for children with complex medical needs by removing red tape from Medicaid.
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Give Kids a Chance Act of 2025: Comprehensive legislation that aims to remove barriers in pediatric drug development with the goal of getting therapies to children more quickly by incentivizing pediatric cancer research and amending current pediatric drug laws. This legislation includes language from previous bills including:
- Creating Hope Reauthorization Act
- Innovation in Pediatric Drugs Act
- RARE Act
- Give Kids A Chance Act of 2024
State Legislation
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An Act Improving Pediatric Cancer Research: Establishes the Commonwealth Pediatric Cancer Research and Resource Project Trust Fund for the purpose of providing grants for pediatric cancer research.
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An Act Establishing a Transferable Pediatric Research Tax Credit: Incentives pediatric cancer research by authorizing up to $10,000,000 in tax credits for Massachusetts hospitals to pediatric cancer research.