SB38 • 2025

Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study prescription drugs.

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 prescription drugs.

Digest: The Act makes the State Board of Pharmacy study prescription drugs.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act makes the State Board of Pharmacy study prescription drugs.
(Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).
Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study prescription drugs.
Directs the board to submit findings to the interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Health Care.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

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

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 38
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 makes the State Board of Pharmacy study prescription drugs. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 72.6).
Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study prescription drugs. Directs the board to submit
findings to the interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than
September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to prescription drugs.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The State Board of Pharmacy shall study prescription drugs. The board 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.
LC 758