AN ACT relating to health care workplace safety.
Summary
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; obligate the cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop guidelines for health facilities conducting workplace safety assessments and creating a workplace safety plan; require the cabinet to audit health facilities for compliance; require health facilities to create a workplace safety assessment and a workplace safety plan; obligate health facilities to provide trainings on the workplace safety assessment and plan; obligate health facilities to develop internal reporting requirements for incidents of workplace violence; create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit discrimination against a health care worker that reports an incident of workplace violence.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2023
Committee Review
Mar 2023
House Passage
Mar 2023
Senate Passage
Mar 2023
Signed into Law
Mar 2023
Introduced Feb 7, 2023
Signed Mar 24, 2023
Floor votes · House Mar 8, 2023
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
26
Key actions
9
Committee
8
Mar 24, 2023
Signed into law
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 100)
lower
Mar 16, 2023
Upper · Passed
enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
upper
Mar 16, 2023
Lower · Passed
enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
lower
Mar 15, 2023
Lower · Passed
3rd reading, passed 36 -0
lower
Mar 15, 2023
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, to Rules as a consent bill
lower
Mar 13, 2023
Committee
to Health Services (S)
upper
Mar 13, 2023
Upper · Passed
returned to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Mar 13, 2023
Upper · Passed
taken from Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Mar 9, 2023
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Mar 8, 2023
Lower · Passed
3rd reading, passed 91-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
lower
Mar 2, 2023
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
lower
Feb 21, 2023
Committee
to Health Services (H)
lower
Feb 7, 2023
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Feb 7, 2023
Introduced
introduced in House
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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