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This bill originally required hospitals to track and report workplace violence incidents and also extended the repeal date for enhanced criminal penalties for assaults or threats against health facility employees to 2032. A substitute version removed that penalty extension, leaving the current repeal date of January 1, 2027 unchanged, while keeping the reporting requirements intact. Under the current version, by November 1, 2026, general acute and specialty hospitals in Utah would need to set up a system for employees to voluntarily report workplace violence incidents, record details like the date, description, job category of those involved, and whether the person responsible was a patient, visitor, or employee, and keep these records for at least two years. Hospitals would also be required to adopt anti-retaliation policies for employees who report incidents, share the reporting system with all staff including new hires, use the data to improve prevention efforts such as de-escalation training, report incident data to hospital leadership quarterly, and report the total number of incidents to the state health department annually.