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HB 592 Original 2024 Regular Session Miller
Abstract: Creates an exemption to the workplace violence education and mitigation requirements
for a healthcare entity with five or fewer primary healthcare providers.
Present law requires a regulated entity, defined as a licensed healthcare facility, federal qualified
health center, pharmacy, or healthcare provider's office with five or more healthcare professionals,
to implement programs to mitigate and raise awareness of workplace violence.
Proposed law modifies the definition of regulated entity to include any healthcare entity such as a
licensed healthcare facility, federal qualified health center, pharmacy, or healthcare provider's office
with five or more healthcare professionals shall implement programs to mitigate and raise awareness
of workplace violence however no healthcare entity with five or fewer primary care providers, such
as a physician, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, pharmacist, or dentist, shall
be considered a regulated entity.
(Amends R.S. 40:2199.12(3))