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type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals; reports of threats or acts of violence against health care providers."
description: "Hospitals; reports of threats or acts of violence against health care providers. Requires hospitals in the Commonwealth to establish a workplace violence incident reporting system to document, track, and analyze any incident of workplace violence reported. The bill requires each hospital to (i) report the data collected via the reporting system to the chief medical officer and the chief nursing officer of such hospital on, at minimum, a quarterly basis and (ii) send a report to the Department of Health on an annual basis that includes, at a minimum, the number of incidents of workplace violence voluntarily reported by an employee. The bill also requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, in collaboration with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to convene a stakeholder work group for the purpose of making recommendations on the workplace violence system and policies adopted pursuant to the bill. This bill is identical to SB 1260."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2269"
citation: "Virginia HB 2269 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy K.L. Tran"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 39
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/110e8e1b-067b-470e-96e5-843f85406144"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2269"
source_hash: "0e0961f2a366dd6eba0ab172b0fb47f46a6facedcbea7c3d8816ed9646d776ee"
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-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 2269 (2025) — Hospitals; reports of threats or acts of violence against health care providers.
Hospitals; reports of threats or acts of violence against health care providers. Requires hospitals in the Commonwealth to establish a workplace violence incident reporting system to document, track, and analyze any incident of workplace violence reported. The bill requires each hospital to (i) report the data collected via the reporting system to the chief medical officer and the chief nursing officer of such hospital on, at minimum, a quarterly basis and (ii) send a report to the Department of Health on an annual basis that includes, at a minimum, the number of incidents of workplace violence voluntarily reported by an employee. The bill also requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, in collaboration with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to convene a stakeholder work group for the purpose of making recommendations on the workplace violence system and policies adopted pursuant to the bill. This bill is identical to SB 1260.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1017008.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077058.PDF)
3. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1052210.PDF)
4. **Health and Human Services Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1034638.PDF)
5. **Health and Human Services Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1034901.PDF)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1064984.PDF)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101230D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2269)
- **2025-01-20** Assigned sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-30** Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Committee substitute printed 25106479D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2269)
- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Health and Human Services Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Committee substitute printed 25107215D-S1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2269)
- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Reading of substitute waived
- **2025-02-18** Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-18** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2269ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2269)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 457 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/110e8e1b-067b-470e-96e5-843f85406144`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).