Health-Worker Violence Bill Wins House Passage Amid Veto Threat

Health-care and social service workers gained bipartisan support for getting protection from violent attacks as the House passed legislation requiring the Labor Department to put rules in place to prevent such incidents.

The “outrageous” rates of violence health-care workers face is a problem that “crosses party lines, crosses regions” and affects all health-care facilities, said bill sponsor Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) .

The legislation (H.R. 1309) would mandate the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to develop and make final a rule within 42 months of the bill’s enactment. The rule would require at least the same ...