republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2025r1/sb-537.md

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Bill	Relating to violence in health care settings.	Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities. <b>Excludes the Oregon State Hospital from such requirements.</b> Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to prepare and submit a consolidated report of workplace violence incidents. Requires certain health care employers and home care settings to take certain actions to protect workers against risks of violence and other safety-related risks.	us/states/or	Oregon Legislative Assembly	2025R1	SB 537	Oregon SB 537 (2025R1)	bill		enacted	Deb Patterson Kathleen Taylor Kayse Jama Lisa Reynolds Mark Meek Rob Nosse Travis Nelson	8	27	5	2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00	2025-07-25T17:17:50+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/53d25bed-0b2d-4798-9255-9b2c0ee83c52	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB537	337249f821b014f0d33b85f211825d11f53aa725bdec90f8ed812c7f96a2381d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-or

Oregon SB 537 (2025R1) — Relating to violence in health care settings.

Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities. Excludes the Oregon State Hospital from such requirements. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to prepare and submit a consolidated report of workplace violence incidents. Requires certain health care employers and home care settings to take certain actions to protect workers against risks of violence and other safety-related risks.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Senate Amendments to Introduced (filed) — source
3. A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. B-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. JWM Amendment -A9 (committee substitute) — source
6. SRULES Amendment -5 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendments to A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Third reading. Carried by Nelson. Passed. — 37–12 (pass) · lower
• Third reading. Carried by Patterson. Passed. — 18–11 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 40–4 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Deb Patterson — primary (person)
• Kathleen Taylor — primary (person)
• Kayse Jama — primary (person)
• Lisa Reynolds — primary (person)
• Mark Meek — primary (person)
• Rob Nosse — primary (person)
• Travis Nelson — primary (person)
• Anthony Broadman — cosponsor (person)
• Courtney Neron Misslin — cosponsor (person)
• Floyd Prozanski — cosponsor (person)
• Hai Pham — cosponsor (person)
• James Manning Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Janeen Sollman — cosponsor (person)
• Lew Frederick — cosponsor (person)
• Mari Watanabe — cosponsor (person)
• Sara Gelser Blouin — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McDonald — cosponsor (person)
• Shannon Isadore — cosponsor (person)
• Tom Andersen — cosponsor (person)
• Willy Chotzen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00 Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-17T22:13:22+00:00 Referred to Health Care. referral-committee
• 2025-03-20T22:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-04-03T22:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-04-10T22:18:26+00:00 Recommendation: Without recommendation as to passage and be referred to Rules.
• 2025-04-10T22:18:27+00:00 Referred to Rules by order of the President. referral-committee
• 2025-04-23T20:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-05-07T20:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-05-19T22:02:32+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means. (Printed A-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-19T22:02:33+00:00 Referred to Ways and Means by order of the President. referral-committee
• 2025-06-07T23:51:00+00:00 Assigned to Subcommittee On Human Services. referral-committee
• 2025-06-11T20:03:00+00:00 Returned to Full Committee.
• 2025-06-11T20:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-06-17T15:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-06-19T22:43:29+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-20T20:01:33+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2025-06-23T18:16:58+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Patterson. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-23T22:48:28+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-06-23T23:09:35+00:00 Referred to Ways and Means. referral-committee
• 2025-06-25T17:32:40+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-26T01:29:22+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2025-06-26T21:12:54+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Nelson. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-27T22:58:40+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2025-06-28T04:01:10+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2025-07-17T17:03:00+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2025-07-25T17:09:25+00:00 Chapter 535, 2025 Laws.
• 2025-07-25T17:17:50+00:00 Effective date, January 1, 2026.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/53d25bed-0b2d-4798-9255-9b2c0ee83c52. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).