Bill Text: TX HB2290 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to designating January as Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2290 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2290-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2290 | ||
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| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2290 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 16, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2290 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
