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Committee rejects proposal to require outdoor public-worker safety plans and grants
Summary
House Bill 1629 would have required public employers to adopt workplace violence prevention plans for outdoor public workers, create safety teams, require training, create a PCCD data-collection role and establish a grant program; the committee voted the bill down after members raised implementation and redundancy concerns.
Representative Kinkade presented House Bill 1629 to the House Judiciary Committee as a prevention-focused alternative to criminal-penalty approaches, describing a grant program to fund protective equipment and training for municipal outdoor workers.
Committee counsel explained the bill would add a new Chapter 34 to Title 71. It would require public entities…
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