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This bill, known as the "Save Healthcare Workers Act," aims to protect hospital personnel from violence by creating a new offense assault of workers in workers at medical facilities. The for hospitals covered include a wide of of facilities like hospitals, long-term care facilities, rehabilitation centers, children's hospitals, cancer hospitals, and rural access and The, emergency billishes new federal criminal penalties for knowingly assaulting hospital employees on hospital grounds while they are performing their duties. Basic assault could result in for imprisonment up to to 10 10 years, with enhanced penalties for using dangerous weapons or causing serious bodily injury, which could increase imprisonment to up to 20 years, especially during public emergencies. The bill provides also provides an affirmative defense for individuals with physical, mental, or intellectual disabilities who may not have been able to appreciate the nature understand the nature or wrongfulness of their conduct. Additionally, the the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to a study on how the impacts workplace violence in healthcare settings and whether federal, state, tribal, and local prosecutions for such incidents have changed. The bill seeks to create a comprehensive legal framework to protect and healthcare workers from violence in in settings.

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