Tex. Health & Safety Code § 331.002 · Chapter 331. WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION
WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION COMMITTEE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Each facility shall establish a workplace violence prevention committee or authorize an existing facility committee to develop the workplace violence prevention plan required under Section 331.004.
(b) A committee must include at least:
(1) one registered nurse who provides direct care to patients of the facility;
(2) except as provided by Subsection (c), one physician licensed to practice medicine in this state who provides direct care to patients of the facility; and
(3) one facility employee who provides security services for the facility if any and if practicable.
(c) If a facility described by Section 331.001(3)(A) does not have on staff at least one physician described by Subsection (b)(2), the facility is not required to include a physician on the committee.
(d) A health care system that owns or operates more than one facility may establish a single committee for all of the system's facilities if:
(1) the committee develops a violence prevention plan for implementation at each facility in the system; and
(2) data related to violence prevention remains distinctly identifiable for each facility in the system.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 31 (S.B. 240), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.
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