S. 1232
119th Congress
Senate
Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
Official title: A bill to direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard that requires covered employers within the health care and social s… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: A bill 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.
Labor and Employment
Administrative law and regulatory proceduresAssault and harassment offensesBusiness recordsDepartment of Labor
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 1, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Apr 1, 2025
Introduced in Senate
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Related & companion bills
2
Bill text
1 version
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Lobbying activity
67
- MASON CONSULTING, LLC
- MASON CONSULTING, LLC
- NATIONAL NURSES UNITED
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS
- WHEAT SHROYER GOVERNMENT RELATIONS LLC
- AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
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)
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
Cosponsors
32
D
Whitehouse, Sheldon
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Booker, Cory A.
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Welch, Peter
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Kim, Andy
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Peters, Gary C.
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Alsobrooks, Angela D.
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Fetterman, John
D
Durbin, Richard J.
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Warnock, Raphael G.
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Schatz, Brian
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Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
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Bennet, Michael F.
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Blumenthal, Richard
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Coons, Christopher A.
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Cortez Masto, Catherine
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Duckworth, Tammy
D
Heinrich, Martin
D
Hickenlooper, John W.
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Kaine, Tim
D
Klobuchar, Amy
D
Luján, Ben Ray
D
Markey, Edward J.
D
Merkley, Jeff
D
Murray, Patty
D
Padilla, Alex
D
Reed, Jack
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Sanders, Bernard
D
Shaheen, Jeanne
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Slotkin, Elissa
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Smith, Tina
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Van Hollen, Chris
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Warren, Elizabeth
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1232: Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1232/
"S. 1232: Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1232/.
S. 1232, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1232/.
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