SB1260
Hospitals; reports of threats or acts of violence against health care providers.
Status:
Enacted
Latest Action:
March 24, 2025
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472)
Chief Patron:
Lashrecse Aird (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Hospitals; reports of threats or acts of violence against health care providers.
Requires hospitals in the Commonwealth to establish a workplace violence incident reporting system to document, track, and analyze any incident of workplace violence reported. The bill requires each hospital to report the data collected via the reporting system (i) to the chief medical officer and the chief nurse officer of ... (More) such hospital on, at minimum, a quarterly basis and (ii) to the Department of Health on an annual basis. The bill also requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, in collaboration with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to convene a stakeholder work group for the purpose of making recommendations on the workplace violence system and policies adopted pursuant to the bill. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/08/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104471D
- 01/08/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/28/2025 - Senate: Assigned Education sub: Health
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25106501D-S1
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1260)
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/06/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
- 02/06/2025 - House: Assigned sub: Health Professions
- 02/07/2025 - House: Placed on Health and Human Services Agenda
- 02/11/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/2025 - House: Placed on Health and Human Services Agenda
- 02/13/2025 - House: Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25107180D-H1
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1260)
- 02/17/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/18/2025 - House: Read third time
- 02/18/2025 - House: Health and Human Services Substitute agreed to
- 02/18/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/18/2025 - House: Passed House with substitute (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/2025 - Senate: Enrolled
- 03/07/2025 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1260ER)
- 03/07/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1260)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2025 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
- 03/11/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/24/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 472 (Effective 07/01/25)
- 03/24/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472)
