By: Parker, Meyer, Frullo H.B. No. 2290

(Senate Sponsor - Huffman)

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015; May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Administration; May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to designating January as Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 662, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 662.107 to read as follows:

Sec. 662.107. HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION MONTH. (a) January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month to increase awareness of human trafficking in an effort to encourage people to alert authorities to any suspected incidents involving human trafficking.

(b) Human Trafficking Prevention Month may be regularly observed through appropriate activities in public schools and other places to increase awareness and prevention of human trafficking.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.

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