HB2318 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to review studies on temperature excursions during the transit of mail order drugs.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Nathanson, Representative Fragala,, Walters,
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Oregon Health Authority to review studies on temperature excursions during the transit of mail order drugs.

Digest: The Act tells OHA to review studies about what happens when drugs get too hot or too cold during transit.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells OHA to review studies about what happens when drugs get too hot or too cold during transit.
(Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to review studies on temperature excursions during the transit of mail order drugs.
Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-28 House
Public Hearing held.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells OHA to review studies about what happens when drugs get too hot or too cold during transit. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to review studies on temperature excursions during the transit of mail order drugs. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to mail order drugs.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2318
Sponsored by Representative NATHANSON (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: The Act tells OHA to review studies about what happens when drugs get too hot or too
cold during transit. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to review studies on temperature excursions during the
transit of mail order drugs. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of
the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to mail order drugs.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Health Authority shall conduct a literature review of peer-
reviewed, independently funded scientific studies regarding the impact of temperature ex-
cursions on drug efficacy and patient safety when drugs are in transit from a mail order
pharmacy to an addressee, including, but not limited to, a consumer, local pharmacy, clinic,
hospital or other entity. The authority shall identify options to reduce the potential risk of
temperature excursions to patient health. The authority shall submit a report in the manner
provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim
committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care no later than September 15,
2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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.
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