Explore healthcare workplace-violence laws, prevention requirements, active legislation, and federal policy developments—with direct links to primary or authoritative sources.
This is an educational, as-of-date policy landscape. The linked official source controls.
Current official state source confirms a healthcare WPV prevention, planning, security, or reporting duty.
Enacted healthcare-WPV law identified in the national baseline; scope varies.
Cal/OSHA Title 8 §3342 requires covered healthcare employers to establish, implement, and maintain an effective written workplace-violence prevention plan, with training, incident review, and other specified duties.
Colorado SB25-166 became law in 2025. Beginning July 1, 2026 and each July thereafter, the state must assess whether each hospital has adopted a formal workplace-violence policy and submitted specified workplace-violence reporting for the next federal fiscal year; hospitals with fewer than 100 beds are exempt from the reporting requirement.
Chapter 618 was signed December 12, 2025. It takes effect September 18, 2026; beginning January 1, 2027, general hospitals must conduct a workplace safety and security assessment at least annually and develop a plan addressing identified workplace-violence threats or hazards.
Effective April 9, 2025, Ohio requires hospital systems and hospitals to establish a security plan for preventing workplace violence, base it on a security risk assessment, review it annually, and operate a workplace-violence incident reporting system.
Oregon SB 537 expanded existing healthcare workplace-violence requirements in 2026. Oregon OSHA published an implementing rule proposal in July 2026 covering security and safety assessments, prevention programs, annual training, and aligned reporting/recordkeeping. Tentative adoption is October 2026 with a proposed January 2027 effective date.
Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 331 requires covered facilities to adopt, implement, and enforce a written workplace-violence prevention policy and establishes related committee and planning duties.
Utah HB 380 took effect May 6, 2026. By November 1, 2026, covered hospitals must establish a workplace-violence incident reporting system, prohibit retaliation, analyze and retain incident data, report internally each quarter, use the data to improve prevention, and report annual incident counts to the state.
Washington Chapter 303, Laws of 2025, effective January 1, 2026, strengthens healthcare workplace-violence requirements, including prevention plans and timely investigation of workplace-violence incidents in covered healthcare settings.
No enacted healthcare-WPV law was identified in the 2026 national review’s June 2024 baseline. H.3480, the Healthcare Workplace Security Act, remains pending in the 2025–26 session and was still residing in the House as of this review.
No enacted healthcare-WPV law was identified in the 2026 national review’s June 2024 baseline. Wyoming HB0155 (2025), which proposed healthcare workplace-violence reporting requirements, did not become law; Wyoming’s official 2025 bill listing records the measure as postponed indefinitely.
Code Safety links directly to the federal bills and OSHA rulemaking most relevant to healthcare workplace-violence prevention.
Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act.
Official bill page →Save Healthcare Workers Act.
Official bill page →Prevention of Workplace Violence in Health Care and Social Assistance rulemaking.
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