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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to violence in health care settings."
+description: "Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities. <b>Excludes the Oregon State Hospital from such requirements.</b> Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to prepare and submit a consolidated report of workplace violence incidents. Requires certain health care employers and home care settings to take certain actions to protect workers against risks of violence and other safety-related risks."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
+legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
+session: "2025R1"
+identifier: "SB 537"
+citation: "Oregon SB 537 (2025R1)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Deb Patterson", "Kathleen Taylor", "Kayse Jama", "Lisa Reynolds", "Mark Meek", "Rob Nosse", "Travis Nelson"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-07-25T17:17:50+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53d25bed-0b2d-4798-9255-9b2c0ee83c52"
+source_url: "https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB537"
+source_hash: "337249f821b014f0d33b85f211825d11f53aa725bdec90f8ed812c7f96a2381d"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-or"]
+---
+
+# Oregon SB 537 (2025R1) — Relating to violence in health care settings.
+
+Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities. <b>Excludes the Oregon State Hospital from such requirements.</b> Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to prepare and submit a consolidated report of workplace violence incidents. Requires certain health care employers and home care settings to take certain actions to protect workers against risks of violence and other safety-related risks.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB537/Introduced)
+2. **Senate Amendments to Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB537/Senate%20Amendments%20to%20Introduced)
+3. **A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB537/A-Engrossed)
+4. **B-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB537/B-Engrossed)
+5. **JWM Amendment -A9** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/29657)
+6. **SRULES Amendment -5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/28844)
+7. **Senate Amendments to A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB537/Senate%20Amendments%20to%20A-Engrossed)
+8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB537/Enrolled)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **4–1** (pass) · upper
+- Heard and Reported Out — **4–1** (pass) · upper
+- Third reading. Carried by Nelson. Passed. — **37–12** (pass) · lower
+- Third reading. Carried by Patterson. Passed. — **18–11** (pass) · upper
+- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **40–4** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Deb Patterson — primary (person)
+- Kathleen Taylor — primary (person)
+- Kayse Jama — primary (person)
+- Lisa Reynolds — primary (person)
+- Mark Meek — primary (person)
+- Rob Nosse — primary (person)
+- Travis Nelson — primary (person)
+- Anthony Broadman — cosponsor (person)
+- Courtney Neron Misslin — cosponsor (person)
+- Floyd Prozanski — cosponsor (person)
+- Hai Pham — cosponsor (person)
+- James Manning Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Janeen Sollman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lew Frederick — cosponsor (person)
+- Mari Watanabe — cosponsor (person)
+- Sara Gelser Blouin — cosponsor (person)
+- Sarah McDonald — cosponsor (person)
+- Shannon Isadore — cosponsor (person)
+- Tom Andersen — cosponsor (person)
+- Willy Chotzen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00** Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-17T22:13:22+00:00** Referred to Health Care. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-20T22:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
+- **2025-04-03T22:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
+- **2025-04-10T22:18:26+00:00** Recommendation: Without recommendation as to passage and be referred to Rules.
+- **2025-04-10T22:18:27+00:00** Referred to Rules by order of the President. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-23T20:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
+- **2025-05-07T20:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
+- **2025-05-19T22:02:32+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means. (Printed A-Eng.) `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-19T22:02:33+00:00** Referred to Ways and Means by order of the President. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-07T23:51:00+00:00** Assigned to Subcommittee On Human Services. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-11T20:03:00+00:00** Returned to Full Committee.
+- **2025-06-11T20:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
+- **2025-06-17T15:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
+- **2025-06-19T22:43:29+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.) `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-20T20:01:33+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-23T18:16:58+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Patterson. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-23T22:48:28+00:00** First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-23T23:09:35+00:00** Referred to Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-25T17:32:40+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-26T01:29:22+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-26T21:12:54+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Nelson. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-27T22:58:40+00:00** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-06-28T04:01:10+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-07-17T17:03:00+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-25T17:09:25+00:00** Chapter 535, 2025 Laws.
+- **2025-07-25T17:17:50+00:00** Effective date, January 1, 2026.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53d25bed-0b2d-4798-9255-9b2c0ee83c52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).
+