Require the Secretary of Labor to issue an interim final standard and a final standard based on existing Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines to prevent workplace violence
Require certain employers in the health care and social service sectors and employers conducting related activities in those sectors to develop and implement plans to protect against and prevent workplace violence
Require hospitals and skilled nursing facilities to comply with the new standard as a condition of a Medicare provider agreement
Impose intergovernmental and private-sector mandates by requiring facilities to comply with the OSHA standard
Estimated budgetary effects would mainly stem from
Changes in Medicare payments to certain affected facilities to defray increased administrative and capital costs
Spending by OSHA to develop the standards, assuming appropriation of authorized amounts
Areas of significant uncertainty include
Predicting the requirements of the final standard
Estimating the extent to which covered entities already comply with the OSHA guidelines
Estimating the reduction in workplace violence associated with the new requirements
