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Bill	Occupational safety and health standards: workplace violence prevention plan: hospitals.	Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, imposes safety responsibilities on employers and employees, including the requirement that an employer establish, implement, and maintain an effective injury prevention program, and makes specified violations of these provisions a crime. Existing law also requires the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to adopt standards developed by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health that require specified types of hospitals to adopt a workplace violence prevention plan as part of the hospital's injury and illness prevention plan to protect health care workers and other facility personnel from aggressive and violent behavior.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2975	California AB 2975 (20232024)	bill	Occupational safety and health standards hospitals workplace violence prevention plan	enacted	Gipson	10	32	9	2024-02-16	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/ad19a0f5-7263-4e21-82af-1aadb93f40d6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2975	ef1b8693a4f9f4f13b15ddc39a570e984548cf31305c5fd1067b1db8859d6d6e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2975 (20232024) — Occupational safety and health standards: workplace violence prevention plan: hospitals.

Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, imposes safety responsibilities on employers and employees, including the requirement that an employer establish, implement, and maintain an effective injury prevention program, and makes specified violations of these provisions a crime. Existing law also requires the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to adopt standards developed by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health that require specified types of hospitals to adopt a workplace violence prevention plan as part of the hospital's injury and illness prevention plan to protect health care workers and other facility personnel from aggressive and violent behavior.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/02/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/27/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2975 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/03/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2975 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — 55–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2975 Gipson et al. By Roth — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2975 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Health] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)
• Ortega — coauthor (person)
• Rendon — coauthor (person)
• Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
• Roth — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Schiavo — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2024-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2024-03-21 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2024-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2024-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 0. Page 5522.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-05 Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2024-06-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 749, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ad19a0f5-7263-4e21-82af-1aadb93f40d6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).