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HB2500 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study changes to laws regarding opioid use disorder medication.

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study changes to laws regarding opioid use disorder medication.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
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 the Oregon Health Authority to study changes to laws regarding opioid use disorder medication.

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study changes to laws on substance use.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells OHA to study changes to laws on substance use.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8).
  • Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study changes to laws regarding opioid use disorder medication.
  • Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026.

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. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Addiction and Community Safety Response.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study changes to laws on substance use. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study changes to laws regarding opioid use disorder medication. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to substance use.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2500
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Joint Interim Committee
on Addiction and Community Safety Response for Representative Jason Kropf)
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 study changes to laws on substance use. (Flesch Readability Score:
81.8).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study changes to laws regarding opioid use disorder
medication. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative
Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to substance use.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Health Authority shall study changes to laws regarding opioid
use disorder medication. 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 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.
LC 3200