2E "Safe Patient Handling Act"; requiring every licensed health care facility in the state to implement by a certain date a safe patient handling program to eliminate patient manual lifting by nurses (RN) and (LPN) and direct patient care workers, requiring mechanical assistive devices use, requiring safe patient handling program committee formation, specifying further program and committee requirements and duties; providing for facilities with existing programs; authorizing commissioner of labor and industry enforcement; requiring the commissioner to study ways to require workers compensation insurers to recognize compliance in workers compensation premiums for health care and long term care facilities; appropriating money to the commissioner of labor and industry
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