Bill Text: TX HCR125 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Requesting the lieutenant governor and speaker of the house to create a joint interim committee to study human trafficking in Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-28 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HCR125 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HCR125-Introduced.html
| 85R22991 KSM-D | ||
| By: Hunter | H.C.R. No. 125 | |
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| WHEREAS, Human trafficking is a serious and escalating | ||
| problem in the United States, particularly in Texas; and | ||
| WHEREAS, A multibillion-dollar business, human trafficking | ||
| is second only to drug dealing in criminal profitability and is the | ||
| fastest-growing illegal enterprise, according to the Polaris | ||
| Project, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that maintains the | ||
| National Human Trafficking Resource Center; it is estimated that as | ||
| many as 17,500 foreign nationals are trafficked into the United | ||
| States each year and that the number of U.S. citizens trafficked | ||
| within our own borders is even higher; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Texas is a major point of illegal entry into the | ||
| United States; its large geographic size along with its | ||
| demographics make the Lone Star State appealing to traffickers, who | ||
| endeavor to blend into the population while exploiting their | ||
| victims in forced labor and prostitution; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Although Texas has been recognized as a leader in | ||
| the effort to end the scourge of human trafficking, eradication of | ||
| this modern-day form of slavery is a difficult challenge, and every | ||
| means of combating it should be explored; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby request the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house | ||
| of representatives to create a joint interim committee to study the | ||
| problem of human trafficking in Texas; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the committee submit a full report, including | ||
| findings and recommendations, to the 86th Texas Legislature before | ||
| it convenes in January 2019. | ||
