SB493 • 2025

Allows an emergency medical responder and an emergency medical technician to draw up and administer one or more doses of a short-acting opioid antagonist from a container that contains multiple doses of the short-acting opioid antagonist.

Healthcare

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Smith DB, Representative Grayber,
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Allows an emergency medical responder and an emergency medical technician to draw up and administer one or more doses of a short-acting opioid antagonist from a container that contains multiple doses of the short-acting opioid antagonist.

Digest: The Act says an EMR and an EMT can draw up and give doses of a drug to stop an opioid overdose.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act says an EMR and an EMT can draw up and give doses of a drug to stop an opioid overdose.
(Flesch Readability Score: 80.7).
Allows an emergency medical responder and an emergency medical technician to draw up and administer one or more doses of a short-acting opioid antagonist from a container that contains multiple doses of the short-acting opioid antagonist.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

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

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-30 Senate
Public Hearing held.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Early Childhood and Behavioral Health.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act says an EMR and an EMT can draw up and give doses of a drug to stop an opioid overdose. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.7).
Allows an emergency medical responder and an emergency medical technician to draw up and administer one or more doses of a short-acting opioid antagonist from a container that contains multiple doses of the short-acting opioid antagonist.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to short-acting opioid antagonists; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 493
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB; Representative GRAYBER (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 says an EMR and an EMT can draw up and give doses of a drug to stop an
opioid overdose. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.7).
Allows an emergency medical responder and an emergency medical technician to draw up and
administer one or more doses of a short-acting opioid antagonist from a container that contains
multiple doses of the short-acting opioid antagonist.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to short-acting opioid antagonists; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 682.
SECTION 2. (1) As used in this section:
(a) “Emergency medical responder” and “emergency medical technician” have the
meanings given those terms by the Oregon Health Authority by rule.
(b) “Short-acting opioid antagonist” has the meaning given that term in ORS 689.800.
(2) An emergency medical responder and an emergency medical technician may draw up
for administration, and may administer as needed, one or more doses of a short-acting opioid
antagonist from a vial or other container that contains multiple doses of the short-acting
opioidantagonist.
SECTION 3.
This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
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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