An Act requiring health care employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence

Filed by John J. Lawn, Jr. · 68 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H2655 · Bill · docket HD3502

10 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-02-27	House	Referred to the committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
2025-02-27	Senate	Senate concurred
2025-04-07	Joint	Hearing scheduled for 04/09/2025 from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM in A-1 & A-2
2025-07-24	House	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2025-11-18	House	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill with the same title, see H4767
2025-11-18	House	Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
2025-11-19	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading with the amendment pending
2025-11-19	House	Rules suspended
2025-11-19	House	Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2025-11-19	House	New draft substituted, see H4767

1 amendments filed

1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	An Act requiring health care employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence	House Committee on Ways and Means	Adopted

1 committee vote

Ways and Means (H) · 2025-11-18 10:45 · H.2655 “An Act requiring health care employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence” as amended

Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.

Public hearing

House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.

Date	Committee	Where	Status
2025-04-09	Public Safety and Homeland Security (J)	A-1 & A-2, 24 Beacon Street, Boston	Completed

Committee actions

Action	Committee
Favorable	Public Safety and Homeland Security (J)
Favorable with Amendment	Ways and Means (H)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)

Cosponsors

In the order filed.

Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.