HEA 1249 (2026) requires employers of health care and school employees to make a workplace battery report to the Department of Labor (DOL) each year before:

• Aug. 1, for the period from Jan. 1 to June 30; and
• Feb. 1, for the period from July 1 to Dec. 31.

The DOL has now provided a standardized form to collect incidences of workplace battery. While the form is available for review, workplace battery data may only be entered in January and July of each year, for the previous six months. As such, the form will transition to a “live” entry form in July 2027 and January 2028, and each July and January thereafter.
 
If a health care employee is employed by or contracted with a hospital at the time the workplace battery is committed, the hospital will report on behalf of the employee, but if the health care employee is not employed by or contracted with a hospital at the time the workplace battery is committed, the employer of that health care employee will need to coordinate submission of the report.