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WashingtonHB 11622025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Concerning workplace violence in health care settings.

Sponsored By: Mari Leavitt (Democratic)

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Health care employers must prevent violence

Beginning January 1, 2026, every health care setting must have a workplace violence prevention plan. Plans must cover locks, alarms, emergency response, staffing patterns and working alone risks, training, reporting, and parking and perimeter safety. Plans must also include help for staff who are harmed. If a site has a qualifying safety or workplace violence committee, that committee creates, runs, and monitors the plan. Each plan must be reviewed and updated at least once a year and use guidance from state and federal agencies and lessons from incident summaries.

Health care settings must report incidents

Beginning January 1, 2026, health care settings must send deidentified summaries of workplace violence investigations to the safety or violence committee. Small or remote hospitals send them at least twice a year. This includes critical access hospitals, hospitals with fewer than 25 acute care beds, sole community hospitals not in a multi-hospital system, and an island hospital in a Skagit County public hospital district. All other settings send them at least quarterly. Summaries must remove personal information and follow state and federal privacy laws.

Investigate every workplace violence incident

Beginning January 1, 2026, every workplace violence incident in a health care setting must be investigated promptly. Each investigation must record when and where it happened, what occurred, any harm, and what responses and fixes were made. When it matters, investigators must compare actual staffing to planned staffing at that time. The goal is to find causes and prevent repeat events.

Law starts 2026 only if funded

The law takes effect January 1, 2026. It only applies if the Legislature provides specific funding for it by June 30, 2025 in the omnibus budget. If that funding is not provided, the act is null and void.

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Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Mari Leavitt

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Cindy Ryu

    Democratic • House

  • Dan Bronoske

    Democratic • House

  • Gerry Pollet

    Democratic • House

  • Greg Nance

    Democratic • House

  • Joe Timmons

    Democratic • House

  • Liz Berry

    Democratic • House

  • Natasha Hill

    Democratic • House

  • Nicole Macri

    Democratic • House

  • Suzanne Schmidt

    Republican • House

  • Timm Ormsby

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 242 • No: 0

House vote • 4/22/2025

Final Passage as Amended by the Senate

Yes: 96 • No: 0 • Other: 2

Senate vote • 4/16/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate

Yes: 49 • No: 0

House vote • 3/5/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 97 • No: 0 • Other: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. Effective date 1/1/2026.

    5/17/2025House

  2. Chapter 303, 2025 Laws.

    5/17/2025House

  3. Governor signed.

    5/17/2025legislature

  4. Delivered to Governor.

    4/25/2025legislature

  5. President signed.

    4/24/2025legislature

  6. Speaker signed.

    4/23/2025legislature

  7. Passed final passage; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2.

    4/22/2025House

  8. House concurred in Senate amendments.

    4/22/2025House

  9. Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0.

    4/16/2025House

  10. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    4/16/2025House

  11. Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.

    4/16/2025House

  12. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

    4/11/2025House

  13. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

    4/8/2025House

  14. Minority; without recommendation.

    4/7/2025House

  15. WM - Majority; do pass with amendment(s) by Labor & Commerce.

    4/7/2025House

  16. Referred to Ways & Means.

    3/25/2025House

  17. And refer to Ways & Means.

    3/21/2025House

  18. Minority; do not pass.

    3/21/2025House

  19. LC - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).

    3/21/2025House

  20. First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce.

    3/7/2025House

  21. Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1.

    3/5/2025House

  22. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    3/5/2025House

  23. 2nd substitute bill substituted.

    3/5/2025House

  24. Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.

    3/4/2025House

  25. Referred to Rules 2 Review.

    2/28/2025House

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