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SB37 • 2025

Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy.

Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Senator Patterson
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In Senate 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 State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy.

Digest: The Act tells the State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells the State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).
  • Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy.
  • Directs the board to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care 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 Senate

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Health Care.

  3. 2025-01-13 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).
Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy. Directs the board to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to pharmacy.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 37
Sponsored by Senator PATTERSON (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 the State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy. (Flesch Readability Score:
72.6).
Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy. Directs the board to submit findings
to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than Sep-
tember 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to pharmacy.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The State Board of Pharmacy shall study pharmacy in this state. The board
shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommen-
dations 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.
LC 749