By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 2069

(In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2023; March 21, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 24, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 3; April 24, 2023, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the required posting of signs regarding human trafficking penalties by certain schools.

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

SECTION 1. Section 37.086(a)(2), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(2) "School" means a public [or private] primary or secondary school.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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