republic-os/legislation/us/states/vt/2025-2026/h-259.md

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Bill	An act relating to preventing workplace violence in hospitals	An act relating to preventing workplace violence in hospitals	us/states/vt	Vermont General Assembly	2025-2026	H 259	Vermont H 259 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Mari Cordes	7	25	0	2025-02-19	2025-04-30	openstates	ocd-bill/d9107b5a-fcae-436f-b8b7-8a903fc379bf	http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/loadBillDetailedStatus/2026/878	ca3078b132955c94f99da0dc8585a528b7b54c2e927f9d79d40a607ff076ff9d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-vt

Vermont H 259 (2025-2026) — An act relating to preventing workplace violence in hospitals

Version chain

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

1. As Introduced (filed) — source
2. Act Summary (committee substitute) — source
3. As Enacted (committee substitute) — source
4. As Passed By the House (Official) (committee substitute) — source
5. As Passed By the House (Unofficial) (committee substitute) — source
6. As Passed by Both House and Senate (Official) (committee substitute) — source
7. As Passed by Both House and Senate (Unofficial) (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Mari Cordes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Read first time and referred to the Committee on Health Care introduction
• 2025-03-14 Notice Calendar: Favorable with Amendment
• 2025-03-18 Action Calendar: Favorable with Amendment
• 2025-03-18 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-03-18 Rep. Cordes of Bristol reported for the Committee on Health Care
• 2025-03-18 Report of Committee on Health Care agreed to
• 2025-03-18 Third Reading ordered reading-3
• 2025-03-19 Action Calendar: Third Reading reading-3
• 2025-03-19 Rep. Cordes of Bristol moved to amend the bill, which was agreed to
• 2025-03-19 Read third time and passed reading-3
• 2025-03-21 Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Health and Welfare introduction
• 2025-04-10 Entered on Notice Calendar
• 2025-04-10 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-10 Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-11 New Business/Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-11 Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Health and Welfare amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-11 Reported favorably by Senator Cummings for Committee on Health and Welfare with proposal of amendment amendment-introduction, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-11 Report of Committee of Health and Welfare withdrawn
• 2025-04-11 3rd reading ordered
• 2025-04-15 New Business/Third Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-15 Read 3rd time & passed in concurrence reading-3
• 2025-04-16 Senate Message: Passed in concurrence passage
• 2025-04-23 Delivered to the Governor on April 23, 2025 passage
• 2025-04-29 Signed by Governor on April 29, 2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-30 House message: Governor approved bill on April 29, 2025

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d9107b5a-fcae-436f-b8b7-8a903fc379bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Vermont legislature records).