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HB2252 • 2025

Requires a person that intends to register to do business in this state as a pharmacy benefit manager to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services that the person is not owned or operated by an insurer or an affiliate of an insurer.

Requires a person that intends to register to do business in this state as a pharmacy benefit manager to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services that the person is not owned or operated by an insurer or an affiliate of an insurer.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Representative Wallan
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In House Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires a person that intends to register to do business in this state as a pharmacy benefit manager to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services that the person is not owned or operated by an insurer or an affiliate of an insurer.

Digest: Says that a person that wants to get the right to do business dealing with claims for drug benefits under a health plan must show that the person is not owned or run by an insurer.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Says that a person that wants to get the right to do business dealing with claims for drug benefits under a health plan must show that the person is not owned or run by an insurer.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
  • Requires a person that intends to register to do business in this state as a pharmacy benefit manager to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services that the person is not owned or operated by an insurer or an affiliate of an insurer.
  • Applies the requirement to renewals of registration beginning January 1, 2031.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-02-04 House

    Public Hearing held.

  3. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care.

  4. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Says that a person that wants to get the right to do business dealing with claims for drug benefits under a health plan must show that the person is not owned or run by an insurer. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
Requires a person that intends to register to do business in this state as a pharmacy benefit manager to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services that the person is not owned or operated by an insurer or an affiliate of an insurer. Applies the requirement to renewals of registration beginning January 1, 2031.
Relating to: Relating to conditions that apply to registration as a pharmacy benefit manager.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2252
Sponsored by Representative WALLAN (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Says that a person that wants to get the right to do business dealing with claims for
drug benefits under a health plan must show that the person is not owned or run by an insurer.
(Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
Requires a person that intends to register to do business in this state as a pharmacy benefit
manager to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Director of the Department of Consumer and
Business Services that the person is not owned or operated by an insurer or an affiliate of an
insurer. Applies the requirement to renewals of registration beginning January 1, 2031.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to conditions that apply to registration as a pharmacy benefit manager; creating new pro-
visions; and amending ORS 735.532.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 735.532, as amended by section 4, chapter 87, Oregon Laws 2024, is amended
to read:
735.532. (1) A person may not transact business or purport to transact business in this state as
a pharmacy benefit manager unless the person has a license to transact business as a pharmacy
benefit manager issued by the Department of Consumer and Business Services.
(2) To obtain a license under this section, a person must:
(a) Submit an application to the department on a form prescribed by the department by rule.
(b) Pay a fee in an amount adopted by the department by rule.
(c) Demonstrate in the application described in paragraph (a) of this subsection, with
evidence acceptable to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services,
that the person is not owned or operated by an insurer or an affiliate of an insurer on behalf
of which the person would perform services that are subject to ORS 735.530 to 735.532. For
the purposes of this paragraph, “affiliate” means a person that controls, is controlled by or
is under common control with another person.
(3) A license to transact business as a pharmacy benefit manager must be renewed every 12
months. To renew a license under this subsection, a pharmacy benefit manager must pay a renewal
fee in an amount adopted by the department by rule.
(4) The department shall deposit all moneys collected under this section into the Consumer and
Business Services Fund created in ORS 705.145.
(5) Any fee adopted by the department under this section must be sufficient to pay the
department’s reasonable costs in administering ORS 735.530 to 735.552.
SECTION 2.
ORS 735.532, as amended by section 4, chapter 87, Oregon Laws 2024, and section
1 of this 2025 Act, is amended to read:
735.532. (1) A person may not transact business or purport to transact business in this state as
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 1001
HB 2252
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a pharmacy benefit manager unless the person has a license to transact business as a pharmacy
benefit manager issued by the Department of Consumer and Business Services.
(2) To obtain a license under this section, a person must:
(a) Submit an application to the department on a form prescribed by the department by rule.
(b) Pay a fee in an amount adopted by the department by rule.
(c) Demonstrate in the application described in paragraph (a) of this subsection, with evidence
acceptable to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, that the person
is not owned or operated by an insurer or an affiliate of an insurer on behalf of which the person
would perform services that are subject to ORS 735.530 to 735.532. For the purposes of this para-
graph, “affiliate” means a person that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with
another person.
(3) A license to transact business as a pharmacy benefit manager must be renewed every 12
months. To renew a license under this subsection, a pharmacy benefit manager must pay a renewal
fee in an amount adopted by the department by rule and make the demonstration described in
subsection (2)(c) of this section .
(4) The department shall deposit all moneys collected under this section into the Consumer and
Business Services Fund created in ORS 705.145.
(5) Any fee adopted by the department under this section must be sufficient to pay the
department’s reasonable costs in administering ORS 735.530 to 735.552.
SECTION 3.
The amendments to ORS 735.532 by section 2 of this 2025 Act become oper-
ative on January 1, 2031.
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