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House adopts health-care workplace violence prevention bill after amendment exchanges
Summary
House Bill 926, the Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Act, passed after floor amendments. An amendment to shift enforcement to the Department of Health failed; a separate amendment standardizing terminology and committee structure was agreed to (203–0), and the bill was agreed to as amended.
House Bill 926, described in clerk remarks as the Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Act, was considered on the floor with multiple amendments. Representative Grove offered amendment A00321 to move enforcement to the Department of Health and to treat violations as violations of chapter 8 of the Health Care Facilities Act; Representative Krueger, the bill's prime sponsor, urged colleagues to vote no on that amendment. The clerk recorded the amendment vote as 101 ayes and 102 nays; the amendment failed.
Representative Roe then offered amendment A00423 described on the floor as a text-standardizing change to terminology and committee structure intended to avoid undue burden on small and rural hospitals. The prime sponsor, Representative Krueger, said the amendment was agreed to. The clerk recorded the vote on that amendment as 203 ayes, 0 nays; the amendment passed. The House then agreed to HB 926 as amended and the bill will be reprinted.
Floor debate described enforcement, reporting, employee protections, signage, and immunity provisions in broad terms; the sponsor and amendment proponents described the bill as providing additional protections for health care workers and a framework for reporting and prevention. The transcript does not include an implementation timeline or an official fiscal note on the floor.
