Chapter 457 & 472 of the 2025 Virginia Acts of the Assembly (HB2269/SB1260) directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, in collaboration with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to convene a stakeholder workgroup that shall include representatives of the Board of Medicine, the Board of Nursing, the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association, the Medical Society of Virginia, the Virginia Nurses Association, the Virginia College of Emergency Physicians, and such other stakeholders as deemed relevant and appropriate, for the purpose of making recommendations on the workplace violence reporting system and policies adopted pursuant to § 32.1-127 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by this act, including:

(i) the specific data elements to be reported to the Department of Health annually;

(ii) additional specific data elements that should be collected by each hospital and included in any report made to the Department of Health;

(iii) the aggregation of any data collected and reported pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) for the purposes of protecting personally identifiable information;

(iv) additional health care entities, if any, that should also be required to collect, maintain a record of, and report data relating to incidents of workplace violence;

(v) additional hospital employees who should be notified of any reported incidents of workplace violence; and

(vi) methods by which the Department of Health shall share publicly the data reported by hospitals pursuant to subsection H of § 32.1-127 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by this act.

The workgroup shall report its recommendations to the Governor and the Chairs of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2025.