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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 331.002

WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION COMMITTEE

Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 31 (S.B. 240), Sec. 1, eff

(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.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.