Bill Text: TX HB5036 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a grant program for reducing workplace violence against nurses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Public Health [HB5036 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5036-Introduced.html
| By: Howard | H.B. No. 5036 | |
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| relating to a grant program for reducing workplace violence against | ||
| nurses. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 105, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 105.011 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 105.011. WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION GRANT PROGRAM. | ||
| (a) To the extent funding is available, the nursing resource | ||
| section established under Section 105.002 shall administer a grant | ||
| program to fund innovative approaches or approaches considered to | ||
| be best practices for reducing verbal and physical violence against | ||
| nurses in hospitals, freestanding emergency medical care | ||
| facilities, nursing facilities, and home health agencies. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
