Bill Text: TX HB822 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to designating April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB822 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB822-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 822 | ||
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| relating to designating April as Sexual Assault Awareness 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 662.111 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.111. SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH. (a) April is | ||
| Sexual Assault Awareness Month to increase awareness and prevention | ||
| of sexual assault. | ||
| (b) Sexual Assault Awareness Month may be regularly | ||
| observed through appropriate activities in public schools and other | ||
| places to increase awareness and prevention of sexual assault. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 822 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 20, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 822 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
