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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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