Section 331.002 - Workplace Violence Prevention Committee(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. Tex. Health and Safety Code § 331.002
Added by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 31,Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2023.