Relating to violence in health care settings.

Added language to exclude the Oregon State Hospital from the workplace violence prevention requirements applicable to health care employers.

Added new subsection (d) to ORS 654.182 requiring safety committees to establish procedures for workplace safety inspections and investigate all safety incidents, accidents, illnesses, and deaths.

Updated sponsor list to include Senators Neron and Sollman, and changed the Senate ordering date from May 19 to June 19.

New sponsors were added to the bill, including Senator JAMA, Senator BROADMAN, Senator GELSER BLOUIN, and Senator MANNING JR.

The requirement for the Oregon Health Authority to create a grant program for workplace violence prevention was removed from the summary and the bill text.

The structure of safety committee requirements was reorganized, with duties and functions moved to a new subsection (d) and renumbered accordingly.

The effective date language was removed from the summary, though the bill text itself was not shown to have this change.