{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-331.003","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 331.003","heading":"WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION POLICY.","body":"(a) A facility shall adopt, implement, and enforce a written workplace violence prevention policy in accordance with this section to protect health care providers and employees from violent behavior and threats of violent behavior occurring at the facility.\n(b) The workplace violence prevention policy must:\n(1) require the facility to:\n(A) provide significant consideration of the violence prevention plan recommended by the facility's committee; and\n(B) evaluate any existing facility violence prevention plan;\n(2) encourage health care providers and employees of the facility to provide confidential information on workplace violence to the committee;\n(3) include a process to protect from retaliation facility health care providers or employees who provide information to the committee; and\n(4) comply with commission rules relating to workplace violence.\nAdded by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 31 (S.B. 240), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 4. HEALTH FACILITIES","SUBTITLE H. HEALTH FACILITY EMPLOYEES","CHAPTER 331. WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.331.htm#331.003","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"ec45e4066cf1ee1601682804a19c971b5724eb728c8b1fd9d4020d63387da38d","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-331.002","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-331.004"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}