PA Bill Number: HB2235
Title: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ...
Description: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ... ...
Last Action: Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Last Action Date: Apr 25, 2024
Proposed Federal House Legislation HB5223
This legislation avoids legal liability for employers who do not provide security for a workplace with a 'no-guns' policy.
Legislation Overview
Title: Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Act
Subject: Administrative law and regulatory procedures: Assault and harassment offenses: Crime prevention: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation: Department of Labor: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use: Emergency communications systems: Emergency medical services and trauma care: Employment discrimination and employee rights: Firearms and explosives: Government information and archives: Health facilities and institutions: Health personnel: Home and outpatient care: Law enforcement officers: Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care: Medicaid: Medicare: Nursing: Violent crime: Worker safety and health: Labor and employment
Description: Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Act This bill requires the Department of Labor to address workplace violence in health care facilities pursuant to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. Specifically, Labor must issue a rule that requires certain health care employers to adopt a comprehensive plan for protecting health care workers and other personnel from workplace violence.
Session: 115th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Last Action Date: March 19, 2018
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5223/all-info
Sponsors
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29 sponsors: Ro Khanna (D); Robert Brady (D); Eleanor Norton (D); Raja Krishnamoorthi (D); Mark Pocan (D); Nydia Velazquez (D); Jamie Raskin (D); Sheila Jackson-Lee (D); Pramila Jayapal (D); Judy Chu (D); Tulsi Gabbard (D); Seth Moulton (D); Barbara Lee (D); Jose Serrano (D); Raul Grijalva (D); Betty McCollum (D); Alcee Hastings (D); Collin Peterson (D); Yvette Clarke (D); Daniel Lipinski (D); Bobby Rush (D); Mike Coffman (R); Salud Carbajal (D); Peter Visclosky (D); C.A. Ruppersberger (D); Stephanie Murphy (D); Anthony Brown (D); Ami Bera (D); John Yarmuth (D)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Mar 19 2018 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| House | Mar 9 2018 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| House | Mar 8 2018 | Introduced in House |
| House | Mar 8 2018 | Referred to the Committee on Education and the 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. |
| House | Mar 8 2018 | Referred to the Committee on Education and the 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. |
| House | Mar 8 2018 | Referred to the Committee on Education and the 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. |
Texts
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Mar 17 2018 | federal bill text | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Committee
Chamber: H
Committee Name: Subcommittee on Health
Votes
There have not been any votes on this bill
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