Health Care Violence Prevention Act (HB4100)

• Health care providers must create workplace violence prevention programs complying with OSHA guidelines, including four classifications of violence (criminal intruders, patient/visitor violence, employee-on-employee violence, and personal relationship violence).

• Health care workers who contact law enforcement regarding workplace violence must notify their employer within 3 days, and employers cannot discourage workers from reporting to law enforcement or retaliate against them.

• Health care providers must display notices that verbal aggression will not be tolerated and physical assault will be reported, and must offer immediate post-incident services including acute treatment and psychological evaluation to affected workers.

• Custodial agencies transporting committed persons to hospitals must provide advance notice of safety concerns, comprehensive medical records, at least one trained guard escort, and establish visitation protocols; pregnant female prisoners cannot be restrained with leg irons, shackles, or waist shackles while in labor.

• Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board must establish a certification curriculum for custodial escorts covering handcuffing, transportation defense, threat assessment, weapons retention, and high-risk custody considerations.