# 119-s-1232: Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act 119-s-1232, Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] (D-WI); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-07-16). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1232 - As of: 2026-07-16 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: 119-s-1232 - Congress: 119 - Title: Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act - Status: introduced - Introduced: 2025-04-01 - Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] (D-WI) - Cosponsors: 32 - Policy area: Labor and Employment - Touches household money: yes - Last recorded action: 2026-07-16 ## Summary **Prevent workplace violence against health care and social service workers.** The bill would require a federal OSHA workplace-violence prevention standard that forces covered employers to build facility-specific prevention plans, run training, keep incident logs, and report violence data to the Department of Labor and Congress. - Health care and social service workers would get required annual training, anti-retaliation protections for reporting incidents, access to plan records, and meaningful participation in creating and updating prevention plans. - Covered employers would have to develop, implement, and maintain a written workplace violence prevention plan for each facility within 6 months of the interim standard. They would also conduct prompt incident investigations, prepare annual summaries, and keep plan and incident records for 5 years. - The rule would apply broadly to hospitals, nursing homes, community clinics, psychiatric and substance use treatment centers, home health and emergency transport services, correctional facility clinics, and other sites the Secretary designates. It would also extend the standard to Medicare-funded hospitals and skilled nursing facilities that fall outside traditional OSHA coverage. ## Cosponsors (32) - Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] (D-MA), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA] (D-VA), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] (D-NH), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM] (D-NM), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] (D-MN), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] (D-CA), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] (D-MN), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] (D-CT), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] (D-WA), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] (I-VT), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Slotkin, Elissa [D-MI] (D-MI), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] (D-MA), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] (D-NV), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] (D-OR), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] (D-RI), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO] (D-CO), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL] (D-IL), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] (D-DE), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] (D-MD), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] (D-NM), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] (D-CO), 2025-04-28T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] (D-NY), 2025-04-30T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] (D-HI), 2025-05-07T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Warnock, Raphael G. [D-GA] (D-GA), 2025-06-03T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] (D-IL), 2025-06-11T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA] (D-PA), 2025-07-09T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Alsobrooks, Angela D. [D-MD] (D-MD), 2025-07-22T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] (D-MI), 2025-07-28T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Kim, Andy [D-NJ] (D-NJ), 2025-07-28T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] (D-VT), 2025-09-02T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] (D-NJ), 2026-01-12T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] (D-RI), 2026-07-14T00:00:00.000Z ## Provisions PRIA read - Medicare providers must follow standard: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would require hospitals and skilled nursing facilities that are not covered by OSHA to comply with the workplace violence prevention standard. The rule would apply to Medicare‑participating providers and noncompliance could trigger Medicare enforcement actions. This Medicare re… - Employers must have violence plans: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would require each covered employer to adopt a written workplace violence prevention plan for each facility or service within 6 months after the interim standard. Plans would be tailored to local hazards and made with meaningful input from direct care employees. Plans would nam… - Which workers and services are covered: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would define which facilities, services, employers, and workers are covered. Covered facilities would include hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, psychiatric and substance use treatment centers, freestanding emergency centers, correctional medical clinics, and other Secretary-d… - Workplace violence rule timeline: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would require the Labor Secretary to issue an interim workplace violence standard within 1 year. The interim standard would take effect within 30 days of issuance and may phase in engineering controls. A proposed rule would be due within 2 years and a final rule within 42 month… - Employees keep existing rights: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would make clear it does not remove other legal rights for workers. Rights under the title would be in addition to Federal, State, or union protections. Workers could still report violent incidents to police. The bill would not limit protections for domestic violence, stalking,… - Incident logs and record access: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would require employers to keep a violent incident log for each facility and service and to retain plan and investigation records for at least 5 years. The Secretary would provide a log template within 1 year of the interim standard. Employers would update the log within 7 days… - Required training for workers and supervisors: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would require employers to train covered employees about the prevention plan, hazards, controls, reporting, response, and anti‑retaliation rights. New employees would get training before they start their job. Supervisors would get additional hazard‑recognition training. Trainin… ## Related bills - 119-s-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act - 119-s-5108: Right to IVF Act of 2026 - 119-s-1503: Equality Act - 119-s-852: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025 - 119-s-2150: Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025 - 119-s-422: Right to Contraception Act ## Sources - [119-s-1232 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1232) ## Related - [119-s-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-51) - [119-s-5108: Right to IVF Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5108) - [119-s-1503: Equality Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1503) - [119-s-852: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-852) - [119-s-2150: Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2150) - [119-s-422: Right to Contraception Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-422) - [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1232 (as of 2026-07-16).