Bill Text: TX HB2313 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to training materials for certain transportation network company drivers regarding human trafficking awareness and prevention.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2313 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2313-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2313 | ||
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| relating to training materials for certain transportation network | ||
| company drivers regarding human trafficking awareness and | ||
| prevention. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 2402, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 2402.1075 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2402.1075. HUMAN TRAFFICKING AWARENESS AND PREVENTION | ||
| TRAINING MATERIALS REQUIRED. (a) A transportation network company | ||
| shall annually provide to each driver who is authorized to log in to | ||
| the company's digital network human trafficking awareness and | ||
| prevention training materials. The training materials must: | ||
| (1) be provided in a digital video format or | ||
| Internet-based video format; | ||
| (2) be not less than 15 minutes in duration; | ||
| (3) be approved by the attorney general; | ||
| (4) be provided in English and Spanish; | ||
| (5) be provided to a new driver before the driver is | ||
| authorized to provide prearranged rides using the company's digital | ||
| network; and | ||
| (6) include: | ||
| (A) an overview of human trafficking, including a | ||
| description of: | ||
| (i) the experience of human trafficking | ||
| victims; | ||
| (ii) how and why human trafficking takes | ||
| place in the transportation industry; and | ||
| (iii) how human trafficking is defined | ||
| under state and federal law; | ||
| (B) guidance on how to identify individuals who | ||
| are most at risk for human trafficking; | ||
| (C) information on the difference between labor | ||
| and sex trafficking as that relates to identification of human | ||
| trafficking in the transportation industry; | ||
| (D) guidance on the role of a driver in reporting | ||
| and responding to human trafficking; and | ||
| (E) the contact information of appropriate | ||
| entities for reporting human trafficking, including: | ||
| (i) the National Human Trafficking Hotline | ||
| toll-free telephone number and text line; | ||
| (ii) appropriate law enforcement agencies; | ||
| and | ||
| (iii) a telephone number designated by the | ||
| attorney general for reporting suspected human trafficking. | ||
| (b) A transportation network company shall maintain records | ||
| necessary to establish that the company has provided the training | ||
| materials required by this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2313 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 97, Nays 40, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2313 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
