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Bill 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 HB 2269. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 SB 1260 Virginia SB 1260 (2025)
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Virginia SB 1260 (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 HB 2269.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  3. Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  4. Health and Human Services Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  5. Health and Human Services Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  6. SEH Sub: Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 970 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 210 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 80 (pass) · lower
  • House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) — 400 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Lashrecse D. Aird — primary (person)
  • Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
  • Kannan Srinivasan — cosponsor (person)
  • Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104471D filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2025-01-28 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
  • 2025-01-30 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-30 Committee substitute printed 25106501D-S1 substitution
  • 2025-01-31 Rules suspended
  • 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-01-31 Passed by for the day
  • 2025-02-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1260)
  • 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
  • 2025-02-03 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2025-02-03 Education and Health Substitute agreed to
  • 2025-02-03 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
  • 2025-02-03 Rules suspended
  • 2025-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-03 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-06 Placed on Calendar
  • 2025-02-06 Read first time reading-1
  • 2025-02-06 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
  • 2025-02-06 Assigned sub: Health Professions referral-committee
  • 2025-02-11 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
  • 2025-02-13 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-13 Committee substitute printed 25107180D-H1 substitution
  • 2025-02-13 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1260)
  • 2025-02-17 Read second time reading-2
  • 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
  • 2025-02-18 Health and Human Services Substitute agreed to
  • 2025-02-18 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
  • 2025-02-18 Passed House with substitute (97-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-19 House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) substitution
  • 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1260ER) passage
  • 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1260)
  • 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
  • 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 472 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/13dd44df-87e5-48ae-a8c4-99a68fe53ca9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).