l9n/ Oregon

2024 Regular Session

House Bill 4088

Requires hospitals to take certain actions with respect to protecting hospital employees from workplace assaults.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Ways and Means Committee on March 7, 2024. The 2024 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

<b>Digest: The Act directs hospitals to take actions with respect to the protection of hospital employees. </b> <b>The Act directs the OHA to administer a grant program. </b> <b>The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.9).</b> [<i>Digest: The Act directs hospitals to take actions with respect to the protection of hospital staff.</i>] [<i>The Act directs the OHPB to contract with the OHSU to run a pilot program. The Act directs the OHSU to report on the program by Sept. 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 65).</i>] Requires hospitals to take certain actions with respect to protecting hospital employees from workplace assaults. Directs hospitals to post signage informing employees of rights and protections regarding workplace assaults. [<i>Requires hospitals to submit an annual report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly and to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services regarding the status of the hospital's assault prevention and protection program and the results of any root cause analyses conducted by the hospital.</i>] <b>Requires hospitals to file certain reports regarding work-related illnesses and injuries to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services for posting to the department's website.</b> Expands the crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to a person working in a hospital while worker is [<i>performing official duties</i>] <b>acting in the course of official duty</b>. [<i>Specifies when a person may not be charged with the crime.</i>] [<i>Requires the Oregon Health Policy Board to enter into an agreement with the Oregon Health and Science University to administer a pilot program for purposes of developing recommendations for establishing a statewide program to train hospital staff on procedures to prevent and respond to incidents of workplace violence.</i>] <b>Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop and administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to eligible hospitals for workplace violence prevention efforts. Establishes the timeline within which the authority must begin distributing grant funds to approved grant applicants.</b> Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

10 co-sponsors

Mark Gamba, Ken Helm, Cyrus Javadi, Emerson Levy, John Lively, Ricki Ruiz, Jules Walters, Jason Kropf, Courtney Neron Misslin, Bobby Levy

In the Senate

4 co-sponsors

Lew Frederick, Mark Meek, Kathleen Taylor, Aaron Woods

Its course

February 5 to March 7, 2024, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action8 actions on 5 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 5 to Mar 7 · stopped31 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 5 to Feb 50 days

JudiciaryFeb 5 to Feb 1914 days

Ways and MeansFeb 19 to Mar 7 · stopped17 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Feb 19

Text

Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Feb 5 – Mar 7

  1. Feb 5Introduced
  2. Sent to Judiciary
  3. Feb 13Heard in Judiciary
  4. Feb 15Heard in Judiciary
  5. Heard in Judiciary
  6. Feb 19Judiciary recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
  7. Sent to Ways and Means
  8. Mar 7Died when the session ended
All 8 actions, as published
  1. Feb 5First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
  2. Feb 5Referred to Judiciary with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
  3. Feb 13Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
  4. Feb 15Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
  5. Feb 15Work Session held.House of Representatives
  6. Feb 19Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
  7. Feb 19Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
  8. Mar 7In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives