Bill Text: TX HB1232 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment and duties of the human trafficking prevention coordinating council.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-03 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1232 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1232-Comm_Sub.html
86R16383 JCG-D | |||
By: Guillen | H.B. No. 1232 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1232: | |||
By: Hunter | C.S.H.B. No. 1232 |
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relating to the establishment and duties of the human trafficking | ||
prevention coordinating council. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 402, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 402.034 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 402.034. HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION COORDINATING | ||
COUNCIL. (a) In this section, "council" means the human | ||
trafficking prevention coordinating council. | ||
(b) The office of the attorney general shall establish the | ||
human trafficking prevention coordinating council to develop and | ||
implement a five-year strategic plan for preventing human | ||
trafficking in this state. | ||
(c) The council is composed of the following: | ||
(1) the governor or the governor's designee; | ||
(2) the attorney general or the attorney general's | ||
designee; | ||
(3) the commissioner of the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services or the commissioner's designee; | ||
(4) the public safety director of the Department of | ||
Public Safety or the director's designee; | ||
(5) one representative from each of the following | ||
state agencies, appointed by the chief administrative officer of | ||
the respective agency: | ||
(A) the Texas Workforce Commission; | ||
(B) the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission; | ||
(C) the Parks and Wildlife Department; and | ||
(D) the Texas Department of Licensing and | ||
Regulation; and | ||
(6) one representative of any other state agency | ||
appointed by the chief administrative officer of the agency, if the | ||
human trafficking prevention task force established under Section | ||
402.035 and the council determine that a representative from the | ||
state agency is a necessary member of the council. | ||
(d) The presiding officer of the council is the attorney | ||
general or the attorney general's designee. | ||
(e) For each five-year period, the council shall: | ||
(1) develop and implement a strategic plan for | ||
preventing human trafficking in this state; and | ||
(2) submit the strategic plan to the legislature. | ||
(f) The strategic plan must include: | ||
(1) an inventory of human trafficking prevention | ||
programs and services in this state that are administered by state | ||
agencies, including institutions of higher education, and | ||
political subdivisions; | ||
(2) regarding the programs and services described by | ||
Subdivision (1): | ||
(A) a report on the number of persons served by | ||
the programs and services; and | ||
(B) a plan to coordinate the programs and | ||
services to achieve the following goals: | ||
(i) eliminate redundancy; | ||
(ii) ensure the agencies' use of best | ||
practices in preventing human trafficking; and | ||
(iii) identify and collect data regarding | ||
the efficacy of the programs and services; and | ||
(3) in relation to the goals for programs and services | ||
as described by Subdivision (2)(B), a plan to coordinate the | ||
expenditure of state funds allocated to prevent human trafficking | ||
in this state, including the expenditure of state funds by the human | ||
trafficking prevention task force established under Section | ||
402.035. | ||
(g) Not later than December 1 of each year, beginning with | ||
the year following the year the council submits a strategic plan to | ||
the legislature under Subsection (e)(2), the council shall submit | ||
to the legislature an annual report detailing the progress of the | ||
strategic plan's implementation. The annual report must include: | ||
(1) a description of the level of participation in the | ||
strategic plan by each agency represented on the council and how the | ||
implementation of the strategic plan serves to coordinate the | ||
programs and services described by Subsection (f)(1) and achieve | ||
the goals described by Subsection (f)(2)(B); and | ||
(2) an update of the inventory of programs and | ||
services described by Subsection (f)(1) and how each program or | ||
service furthers the goals of the strategic plan. | ||
(h) The office of the attorney general shall make available | ||
on the office's Internet website the strategic plan and the annual | ||
reports required under Subsection (g). | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than May 1, 2020, the human trafficking | ||
prevention coordinating council shall submit to the legislature the | ||
five-year strategic plan required by Section 402.034(e), | ||
Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |