Requires certain health insurance providers to ensure that coverage for a nonopioid prescription drug is available as an alternative for an opioid prescription drug and to use the same utilization review requirements and
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Derived from the official record below.
Officially: “Requires certain health insurance providers to ensure that coverage for a nonopioid prescription drug is available as an alternative for an opioid prescription drug and to use the same utilization review requirements and cost-sharing provisions for opioid and nonopioid drugs when they are...” Read the full text
2025R1 session
What it does
Digest: Tells some health insurers to cover a nonopioid drug alternate for an opioid drug with the same rules. Tells the PTC to add to their suggestions a nonopioid drug alternate for an opioid drug with the same rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires certain health insurance providers to ensure that coverage for a nonopioid prescription drug is available as an alternative for an opioid prescription drug and to use the same utilization review requirements and cost-sharing provisions f
From the official legislative record, shown verbatim. Not legal advice.
Where it is
Chaptered (Chapter 536) (latest official status) · Jul 25, 2025
Latest official status shown, exactly as the official record states it. The step by step history lives on the official page linked below.
The numbers
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sponsors on the bill
Recorded votes
Third reading. Carried by Grayber. Passed.House · 2025-06-26 · Aye 45, Excused 8, Excused for Business 4, Nay 3
Third reading. Carried by Campos. Passed.Senate · 2025-06-23 · Excused 1, Aye 23, Nay 6
Recorded voteJoint · 2025-06-17 · Aye 40, Excused 2, Nay 4
Recorded voteSenate · 2025-04-08 · Aye 4, Nay 1
Roll-call results shown verbatim from the Oregon legislature’s records. A result reflects that roll call’s own motion, not the bill’s overall outcome.
Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Chaptered (Chapter 536) · effective Jan 1, 2026.