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Bill AN ACT relating to health care workplace safety. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; obligate the cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop guidelines for health facilities conducting workplace safety assessments and creating a workplace safety plan; require the cabinet to audit health facilities for compliance; require health facilities to create a workplace safety assessment and a workplace safety plan; obligate health facilities to provide trainings on the workplace safety assessment and plan; obligate health facilities to develop internal reporting requirements for incidents of workplace violence; create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit discrimination against a health care worker that reports an incident of workplace violence. us/states/ky Kentucky General Assembly 2023RS HB 176 Kentucky HB 176 (2023RS)
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Kentucky HB 176 (2023RS) — AN ACT relating to health care workplace safety.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; obligate the cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop guidelines for health facilities conducting workplace safety assessments and creating a workplace safety plan; require the cabinet to audit health facilities for compliance; require health facilities to create a workplace safety assessment and a workplace safety plan; obligate health facilities to provide trainings on the workplace safety assessment and plan; obligate health facilities to develop internal reporting requirements for incidents of workplace violence; create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit discrimination against a health care worker that reports an incident of workplace violence.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Acts Chapter 100 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Pass — pass (pass) · lower
  • FINAL PASSAGE HB 176 — pass (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

  • 2023-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
  • 2023-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
  • 2023-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 to Health Services (H) referral-committee
  • 2023-03-02T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
  • 2023-03-03T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
  • 2023-03-03T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 07, 2023
  • 2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 taken from the Consent Orders of the Day
  • 2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
  • 2023-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 91-0 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
  • 2023-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
  • 2023-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
  • 2023-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Committee on Committees (S)
  • 2023-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
  • 2023-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Committee on Committees (S)
  • 2023-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 to Health Services (S) referral-committee
  • 2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Health Services (S)
  • 2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading reading-2
  • 2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Health Services (S)
  • 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, to Rules as a consent bill committee-passage
  • 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2023
  • 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 36 -0 passage, reading-3
  • 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
  • 2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
  • 2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
  • 2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
  • 2023-03-24T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 100) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1801d299-4a4d-4e57-921b-b47b53c0f62b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).