2025 · Regular session · Senate bill
SB463
SB463 brings more care facilities under Texas workplace-violence prevention requirements.
Official caption: Relating to the definition of facility for purposes of workplace violence prevention requirements.
Official report lists Senate author(s): Campbell. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.
Bill explanation published · Version and amendment review scope is stated below · Individual amendment records may not be separately annotated.
Bill highlights
Selected points from the published explanation. Follow each point to its source-linked context; conditions and limits may matter.
- SB463 brings more care facilities under Texas workplace-violence prevention requirements.
- The law was signed May 20, 2025, and took effect September 1, 2025.
- Chapter 331 already requires a prevention committee, written policy and setting-specific plan; annual training for direct-patient-care workers; an incident response and investigation system; and attention to physical security.
What does it do?
SB463 brings more care facilities under Texas workplace-violence prevention requirements. It adds licensed intermediate care facilities for individuals with an intellectual disability and state supported living centers. It also broadens coverage of licensed or licensed-and-certified home and community support services agencies that employ at least two registered nurses, removing the former restriction to agencies providing home health services. The two-nurse threshold remains for those agencies; the new intellectual-disability facility and living-center categories have no such threshold in this definition. Final coverage changes.
The law was signed May 20, 2025, and took effect September 1, 2025. Newly covered agencies, intermediate care facilities and state supported living centers have until September 1, 2026, to comply with Chapter 331. That transition is not a new delay for facilities already covered. History; Compliance deadline.
Chapter 331 already requires a prevention committee, written policy and setting-specific plan; annual training for direct-patient-care workers; an incident response and investigation system; and attention to physical security. It also requires practicable patient-assignment changes after intentional abuse or threats, annual plan review, post-incident services including necessary acute medical treatment, and protections against retaliation for good-faith reporting. SB463 expands who must follow those rules rather than rewriting them. Committee; Policy; Plan and training; Response and reporting protections.
What changed along the way?
As introduced, the bill only broadened home and community support agency coverage. The Senate committee substitute added intermediate care facilities and state supported living centers and included them in the September 2026 compliance deadline. The engrossed, House committee and enrolled texts retained those additions. Introduced text; Senate substitute; All versions.
The official amendment index lists no floor amendments. The substantive expansion occurred in the committee substitute. Amendment index.
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Official bill versions
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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?
Workers at newly covered facilities gain the chapter’s prevention, response and reporting protections. Facilities must organize or designate a committee and implement the required policy, plan and training. Licensing agencies may use disciplinary action to enforce Chapter 331. This is not a guarantee that workplace violence will decline, and the bill does not create a separate cash benefit for workers. Coverage and transition; Licensing enforcement.
Both the April 5 introduced and April 11 substitute fiscal notes anticipate no significant state or local fiscal impact and assume state costs can be absorbed using existing resources. That does not mean every newly covered facility has no compliance work or expense; the notes do not quantify private-facility costs or projected reductions in violent incidents. Latest indexed fiscal note.
Official sources
- Bill history and latest recorded action
- Bill versions, analyses and fiscal notes
- Action history and votes
- Amendment index
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