Overview

• Lawmakers confirmed receipt of the presidential initiative, with Chamber president Kenia López Rabadán acknowledging the document’s arrival for formal processing.
• The bill would criminalize production, import, distribution, sale, advertising and use of electronic cigarettes and analogous devices, setting penalties of one to eight years in prison and fines of 100 to 2,000 UMA (about 11,314 to 226,280 pesos).
• The proposal designates the Health Ministry to plan and conduct consolidated purchases of medicines, high‑technology equipment and other supplies to improve availability, quality and pricing.
• The draft expands COFEPRIS authority to speed procedures and intensify sanitary surveillance, and it adds fentanyl to the list of controlled substances to curb illicit use.
• The reform incorporates digital health and telemedicine, a National Master Plan for health infrastructure, expanded roles for CONAMED in medical complaints, and measures to promote domestic pharmaceutical and medical‑device production under Plan México.