S 8724 — Requires security at all publicly accessible entrances of general hospitals

Congress · introduced 2026-01-07

Requires security at all publicly accessible entrances of general hospitals; requires every general hospital to have either one off-duty law enforcement officer or trained security personnel be present at all times at each publicly accessible entrance or have installed locking doors at each publicly accessible entrance; requires every general hospital to provide wearable employee panic buttons or alert devices capable of immediately notifying on-site security personnel or law enforcement in the event of a dangerous situation or emergency.

Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_SENATE_COMM

Action timeline

2026-01-07 · senate — REFERRED TO HEALTH

Text versions

Introduced · 2026-01-07 — HTML · Text

Connected on the graph

Inbound (2)

date	from	type	amount	role	source
2026-01-07	Steve Rhoads	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-07	Alexis Weik	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#	Member	Role	Speeches	Voted	Score
1	Alexis Weik (—, state_upper NY-8)	sponsor	0	—	5
2	Steve Rhoads (—, state_upper NY-5)	cosponsor	0	—	1

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

2026-01-07 · sponsored by Alexis Weik (sponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-07 · cosponsored by Steve Rhoads (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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