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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 447
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 says that a pharmacy has to tell a person who gets a prescription drug that the
drug maker might be able to help the person pay for the drug. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9).
Requires a pharmacy to notify a person to whom a prescription drug is dispensed that the drug
manufacturer may offer a patient assistance program. Defines “patient assistance program.”
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to patient assistance programs; and prescribing an effective date.
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 689.
SECTION 2.(1) As used in this section, “patient assistance program” means a program
operated by or on behalf of a manufacturer that offers financial assistance to a person to
whom a drug manufactured by the manufacturer is dispensed.
(2) A pharmacy shall notify each person to whom a prescription drug is dispensed that
a patient assistance program may be available from the drug’s manufacturer and provide to
the patient the name of the manufacturer.
(3) Subsection (2) of this section does not apply to an institutional drug outlet.
SECTION 3. Section 2 of this 2025 Act applies to prescription drugs dispensed on or after
the operative date specified in section 4 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 4.(1) Section 2 of this 2025 Act becomes operative on January 1, 2026.
(2) The State Board of Pharmacy may take any action before the operative date specified
in subsection (1) of this section that is necessary to enable the board to exercise, on and
after the operative date specified in subsection (1) of this section, all of the duties, functions
and powers conferred on the board by section 2 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 5.This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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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