Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard that requires covered employers within the health care and social service … Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard that requires covered employers within the health care and social service industries to develop and implement a comprehensive workplace violence prevention plan, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
This bill requires the Department of Labor to address workplace violence in health care, social service, and similar sectors.
Specifically, Labor must issue an occupational safety and health standard that requires certain employers to take actions to protect workers and other personnel from workplace violence. The standard applies to employers in the health care sector, in the social service sector, and in sectors that conduct activities similar to those in the health care and social service sectors. Among other elements, the standard must require each employer to (1) develop a workplace violence prevention plan, (2) promptly investigate incidents of workplace violence, and (3) provide relevant training and education to employees.
The bill requires certain hospitals and skilled nursing facilities to comply with this standard as a condition of Medicare participation.
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- MASON CONSULTING, LLC
- MASON CONSULTING, LLC
- NATIONAL NURSES UNITED
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS
- WHEAT SHROYER GOVERNMENT RELATIONS LLC
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Education, Dept of
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2531: Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2531/
"H.R. 2531: Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2531/.
H.R. 2531, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2531/.
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