Bill Text: TX HB2290 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
84R7809 AAF-D | ||
By: Parker, Meyer | 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. |