Bill Text: IL SB1621 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Health Care Violence Prevention Act. Tasks health care providers with reporting any incident of verbal aggression or physical assault of a health care worker employed by the health care provider in the health care provider's emergency department to the Department of Public Health. Requires the Department to track the information reported to assess each health care provider's progress in systemically limiting the verbal aggression toward and physical assault of health care workers. Requires health care providers to post notice regarding verbal aggression and physical assault of health care workers in each emergency department of the health care provider. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-02 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sally J. Turner [SB1621 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1621-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1621 Introduced 2/8/2023, by Sen. Jil Tracy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 160/15
Amends the Health Care Violence Prevention Act. Tasks health care providers with reporting any incident of verbal aggression or physical assault of a health care worker employed by the health care provider in the health care provider's emergency department to the Department of Public Health. Requires the Department to track the information reported to assess each health care provider's progress in systemically limiting the verbal aggression toward and physical assault of health care workers. Requires health care providers to post notice regarding verbal aggression and physical assault of health care workers in each emergency department of the health care provider. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Health Care Violence Prevention Act is
amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
(210 ILCS 160/15)
Sec. 15. Workplace safety.
(a) A health care worker who contacts law enforcement or
files a report with law enforcement against a patient or
individual because of workplace violence shall provide notice
to management of the health care provider by which he or she is
employed within 3 days after contacting law enforcement or
filing the report.
(a-5) A health care provider shall report any incident of
verbal aggression or physical assault of a health care worker
employed by the health care provider in the health care
provider's emergency department to the Department of Public
Health. The Department of Public Health shall track
information reported under this subsection to assess each
health care provider's progress in systemically limiting the
verbal aggression toward and physical assault of health care
workers.
(b) No management of a health care provider may discourage

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a health care worker from exercising his or her right to
contact law enforcement or file a report with law enforcement
because of workplace violence.
(c) A health care provider that employs a health care
worker shall display a notice, either by physical or
electronic means, stating that verbal aggression will not be
tolerated and physical assault will be reported to law
enforcement. The notice shall also be displayed in each
emergency department of the health care provider.
(d) The health care provider shall offer immediate
post-incident services for a health care worker directly
involved in a workplace violence incident caused by patients
or their visitors, including acute treatment and access to
psychological evaluation.
(Source: P.A. 102-4, eff. 4-27-21.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.