Title: Expands Protections for Health Care Workers
Signed by Governor Spencer Cox
Title: Expands Protections for Health Care Workers
Title: Expands Protections for Health Care Workers
Vote to pass a substitute bill that expands protections for health care workers.
Prohibits assault or threat of violence against health care providers, emergency medical service workers, health facility employees, owners, and contractors (Page 2).
Specifies what constitutes such assault or threat (Page 3).
Establishes third degree felony charge if such act perpetrated “intentionally or knowingly” or causing “substantial bodily injury” (Page 3-4).
Title: Expands Protections for Health Care Workers