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
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.) | ||
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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. | ||
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