Relating to violence against health care employees.
Summary
Makes it unlawful employment practice for health care employer to retaliate against employee who makes good faith report of assault that occurred on premises of health care provider or in home of patient receiving home health care services. ] Requires health care employer to hire security personnel to provide security services, at all times, in emergency care department of hospital. ] Requires health care employer to conduct comprehensive security and safety evaluation using state or nationally recognized workplace violence prevention toolkit. Requires employer to conduct evaluation by June 30, 2021. Requires employer to report to Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services by December 31, 2021, as to whether employer has conducted evaluation. Requires director to compile report summarizing employer compliance and submit report to committees of Legislative Assembly related to health care by March 22, 2022. Sunsets provisions June 30, 2022. Makes unlawful employment practice for person to discriminate against employee or prospective employee because employee or prospective employee has reported in good faith assault that occurred on premises of health care employer or in home of patient receiving home health care services. Requires health care employer to establish, in coordination with health care employer's workplace safety committee, process by which committee shall review health care employer's assault prevention and protection program. Requires health care employer to generate and make available to public ] requesting employee or workplace safety committee annual ] report that summarizes information regarding records of ] assaults committed against employees and regarding work-related injuries and illnesses . Requires health care employer to submit report to Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services no later than December 31 of each year. ] Requires health care employer that has information regarding assault committed by patient on premises of health care employer to include in patient's medical record description of assault and any other information relating to patient's high risk for assaultive behavior. ].
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2019
Committee Review
May 2019
Senate Passage
Jun 2019
House Passage
Jun 2019
Signed into Law
Jun 2019
Introduced Feb 21, 2019
Signed Jun 11, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Apr 22, 2019 · House Jun 3, 2019
How they voted
23–4
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 29
Apr 22, 2019
D
Democratic18
100% Yea
I
Independent1
100% Nay
R
Republican10
50% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
7
Committee
5
Jun 11, 2019
Signed into law
Governor signed.
upper
Jun 5, 2019
Lower · Passed
Speaker signed.
lower
Jun 4, 2019
Upper · Passed
President signed.
upper
Jun 3, 2019
Lower · Passed
Third reading. Carried by Prusak. Passed.
lower
May 23, 2019
Lower · Passed
Recommendation: Do pass.
lower
Apr 26, 2019
Committee
Referred to Health Care.
lower
Apr 23, 2019
Introduced
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
lower
Apr 22, 2019
Upper · Passed
Third reading. Carried by Monnes Anderson. Passed.
upper
Apr 17, 2019
Committee
Subsequent referral rescinded by order of the President.
upper
Apr 17, 2019
Upper · Passed
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and subsequent referral to Workforce be rescinded. (Printed A-Eng.)
upper
Feb 25, 2019
Committee
Referred to Health Care, then Workforce.
upper
Feb 21, 2019
Introduced
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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