Bill Text: TX SB463 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of facility for purposes of workplace violence prevention requirements.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2025-05-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [SB463 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB463-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 463 | ||
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| relating to the definition of facility for purposes of workplace | ||
| violence prevention requirements. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 331.001(3), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (3) "Facility" means: | ||
| (A) a home and community support services agency | ||
| licensed or licensed and certified under Chapter 142 [ |
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| least two registered nurses; | ||
| (B) a hospital licensed under Chapter 241 and a | ||
| hospital maintained or operated by an agency of this state that is | ||
| exempt from licensing under that chapter; | ||
| (C) a nursing facility licensed under Chapter 242 | ||
| that employs at least two registered nurses; | ||
| (D) an ambulatory surgical center licensed under | ||
| Chapter 243; | ||
| (E) a freestanding emergency medical care | ||
| facility as defined by Section 254.001; [ |
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| (F) a mental hospital licensed under Chapter 577; | ||
| (G) an intermediate care facility for | ||
| individuals with an intellectual disability licensed under Chapter | ||
| 252; and | ||
| (H) a state supported living center as defined by | ||
| Section 531.002. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2026, a home and | ||
| community support services agency, intermediate care facility for | ||
| individuals with an intellectual disability, or state supported | ||
| living center that becomes subject to Chapter 331, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, under Section 331.001, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| amended by this Act, shall comply with the requirements of that | ||
| chapter. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 463 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 24, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 463 passed the House on | ||
| May 7, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, two present | ||
| not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
