Oregon Senate Bill 823 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: Passed on June 17 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-06-17 - Effective date, January 1, 2020.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Requires health care employer to conduct comprehensive security and safety evaluation using state or nationally recognized workplace violence prevention toolkit. Makes it unlawful employment practice for health care employer to retaliate against employee who makes good faith report of assault that occurred on premises of health care provider or in home of patient receiving home health care services.] Requires health care employer to hire security personnel to provide security services, at all times, in emergency care department of hospital.] Requires employer to conduct evaluation by June 30, 2021. Requires employer to report to Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services by December 31, 2021, as to whether employer has conducted evaluation. Requires director to compile report summarizing employer compliance and submit report to committees of Legislative Assembly related to health care by March 22, 2022. Sunsets provisions June 30, 2022. Makes unlawful employment practice for person to discriminate against employee or prospective employee because employee or prospective employee has reported in good faith assault that occurred on premises of health care employer or in home of patient receiving home health care services. Requires health care employer to establish, in coordination with health care employer's workplace safety committee, process by which committee shall review health care employer's assault prevention and protection program. Requires health care employer to generate and make available to public] requesting employee or workplace safety committee annual] report that summarizes information regarding records of] assaults committed against employees and regarding work-related injuries and illnesses. Requires health care employer to submit report to Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services no later than December 31 of each year.] Requires health care employer that has information regarding assault committed by patient on premises of health care employer to include in patient's medical record description of assault and any other information relating to patient's high risk for assaultive behavior.].

Relating to violence against health care employees.

Senate Health Care Committee

2019-06-03 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 57 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2019-05-16 - House - House Committee Do Pass the A-Eng bill (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-04-22 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 23 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2019-04-08 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass and subsequent referral to Workforce be rescinded (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-06-17	Senate	Effective date, January 1, 2020.
2019-06-17	Senate	Chapter 350, 2019 Laws.
2019-06-11	Senate	Governor signed.
2019-06-05	House	Speaker signed.
2019-06-04	Senate	President signed.
2019-06-03	House	Third reading. Carried by Prusak. Passed. Ayes, 57; Excused, 3--Barker, Boles, Clem.
2019-05-30	House	Rules suspended. Carried over to June 3, 2019 Calendar.
2019-05-29	House	Carried over to May 30, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
2019-05-28	House	Second reading.
2019-05-23	House	Recommendation: Do pass.
2019-05-16	House	Public Hearing and Work Session held.
2019-04-26	House	Referred to Health Care.
2019-04-23	House	First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
2019-04-22	Senate	Third reading. Carried by Monnes Anderson. Passed. Ayes, 23; Nays, 4--Baertschiger Jr, Boquist, Girod, Thomsen; Excused, 3--Hansell, Linthicum, Winters.
2019-04-18	Senate	Second reading.
2019-04-17	Senate	Subsequent referral rescinded by order of the President.
2019-04-17	Senate	Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and subsequent referral to Workforce be rescinded. (Printed A-Eng.)
2019-04-08	Senate	Work Session held.
2019-04-03	Senate	Work Session held.
2019-03-20	Senate	Public Hearing held.
2019-02-25	Senate	Referred to Health Care, then Workforce.
2019-02-21	Senate	Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Type	Source
Summary	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/Measures/Overview/SB823
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB823/Introduced
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB823/Senate%20Amendments%20to%20Introduced
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB823/A-Engrossed
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB823/Enrolled
Roll Call	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/CommitteeReports/MajorityReport/28843
Roll Call	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/Measures/MeasureVotes?id=461012
Roll Call	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/CommitteeReports/MajorityReport/29531
Roll Call	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/Measures/MeasureVotes?id=471192