US Congress Senate Bill 851 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-1)
Status: Introduced on March 14 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-03-14 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires the Department of Labor to address workplace violence in the health care and social service sectors. Specifically, Labor must promulgate an occupational safety and health standard that requires certain employers in the health care and social service sectors, as well as employers in sectors that conduct activities similar to the activities in the health care and social service sectors, to develop and implement a comprehensive plan for protecting health care workers, social service workers, and other personnel from workplace violence. In addition, those employers must investigate workplace violence incidents, risks, or hazards as soon as practicable; provide training and education to employees who may be exposed to workplace violence hazards and risks; meet record keeping requirements; and prohibit acts of discrimination or retaliation against employees for reporting workplace violence incidents, threats, or concerns.

Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act

Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]
Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Doug Jones [D-AL]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]
Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]
Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-14	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB1309 (Related) 2019-11-21 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
HR713 (Similar To) 2019-11-20 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/851/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s851/BILLS-116s851is.pdf