Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 240	Senate Author:  Campbell et al.
Effective:  9-1-23	House Sponsor:  Howard et al.

            Senate Bill 240 amends the Health and Safety Code to require certain health facilities to adopt, implement, and enforce a written workplace violence prevention policy and plan to protect health care providers and employees from violent behavior and threats of violent behavior occurring at the facility. Each facility must also establish a workplace violence prevention committee or authorize an existing facility committee to develop, review, and evaluate the workplace violence prevention plan. The bill provides for the membership of such a committee and sets out requirements for a facility's workplace violence prevention policy and plan. The bill additionally establishes minimum requirements for a facility in responding to an incident of workplace violence and creates protections for individuals with respect to reporting incidents of workplace violence.