1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) In a 2016 report entitled, Workplace Safety and Health: Additional Efforts Needed to Help Protect Health Care Workers from Workplace Violence , the Government Accountability Office reported over 730,000 cases of health care workplace assaults over the 5-year span from 2009 through 2013, based on Bureau of Justice Statistics data. (2) The health care and social service industries experience the highest rates of injuries caused by workplace violence. Nurses, social workers, psychiatric, home health, and personal care aides are all at increased risk for injury caused by workplace violence. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 2017, rates of violence and injury caused by persons in these workplaces ranged from 3 times to as high as 61.9 times the average American workplace. (3) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that health care and social service workers suffered 69 percent of all workplace violence injuries caused by persons in 2017 and are nearly 5 times as likely to suffer a workplace violence injury than workers overall. (4) According to a survey of 3,500 American emergency physicians conducted by the American College of Emergency Physicians, 47 percent of emergency room doctors have been physically assaulted at work, and 8 in 10 report that this violence is affecting patient care. (5) Workplace violence in health care and social service sectors is increasing. Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that private sector injury rates of workplace violence in health care and social service sectors increased by 63 percent between 2006 and 2016. Due to under-reporting, actual injury rates from workplace violence are widely recognized to be higher than reported levels. (6) Violence in health care settings has adverse impacts on workers and patients, compromising quality of care. (7) Studies have demonstrated that workplace violence