S. 1600 · 119th Congress

Save Healthcare Workers Act

Introduced on May 5, 2025 by Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS). 3 cosponsors, 1 of them from another party. Latest action (May 5, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
May 5, 2025
Cosponsors
3
1 from the other party
Policy area
Crime and Law Enforcement
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

A bill to protect hospital personnel from violence, and for other purposes.

Summary

The Congressional Research Service has not summarized this measure yet.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Cindy Hyde-SmithR-MSSponsor

Democrats · 1

Independents · 1

Republicans · 1

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. May 5, 2025Introduced in Senate
  2. May 5, 2025 · SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION10 reports
    $29M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION$1.2M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  2. Emergency Nurses Association10 reports
    $261.7K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: EMERGENCY NURSES ASSOCIATION$201.3K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  3. AMERICA'S ESSENTIAL HOSPITALS5 reports
    $2.9M reported (all issues)
  4. AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS5 reports
    $2.3M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS$92K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  5. Cleveland Clinic Foundation5 reports
    Federal contractor: THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$1.1M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  6. Greater New York Hospital Association5 reports
    $2.8M reported (all issues)
  7. Healthcare Workforce Coalition5 reports
    $300K reported (all issues)
  8. PREMIER INC.5 reports
    $970K reported (all issues)
  9. Society of Hospital Medicine5 reports
    $200K reported (all issues)
  10. VIZIENT, INC.5 reports
    $1.6M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: VIZIENT INC$18.2K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 98%
  11. Florida Hospital Association4 reports
  12. TRINITY HEALTH4 reports
    $960K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: TRINITY HEALTH$226.3K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 95%
  13. The New York and Presbyterian Hospital4 reports
    $870K reported (all issues)
  14. AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY3 reports
    $1.8M reported (all issues)
  15. American Organization for Nursing Leadership (formerly American Organization of1 report
    $20K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN ORGANIZATION FOR NURSING LEADERSHIPAI match · 99%
  16. FEDERATION OF AMERICAN HOSPITALS1 report
    $725K reported (all issues)
  17. NYU Langone Hospitals (Formerly NYU Hospitals Center)1 report
    $50K reported (all issues)
  18. New York University Langone Medical Center1 report
    $30K reported (all issues)
  19. Stony Brook University, SUNY Stony Brook1 report
    $175K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY HOSP$324.2K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 94%

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.