SLS 22RS-3442 ORIGINAL
2022 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 179
BY SENATOR MIZELL
CRIME/PUNISHMENT. To urge and request the Louisiana Department of Health,
Department of Transportation and Development, and Department of Revenue, office of
alcohol and tobacco, to post human trafficking awareness posters.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To urge and request the Louisiana Department of Health, Department of Transportation and
3 Development and Department of Revenue, office of alcohol and tobacco, to post on
4 their websites, a sample posting with information regarding the National Human
5 Trafficking Resource Center hotline in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese.
6 WHEREAS, Louisiana law requires that the Louisiana Department of Health,
7 Department of Transportation and Development and Department of Revenue, office of
8 alcohol and tobacco, post a sample poster on their websites for those businesses they oversee
9 that are required by law to post such notices in a prominent location within the building; and
10 WHEREAS, as a result of greater tourism in Louisiana, there exists a greater
11 diversity of languages spoken by the population since the last decennial census, including
12 Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese; and
13 WHEREAS, there has been a thirty-two percent increase in the Asian population in
14 Louisiana since the last decennial census; and
15 WHEREAS, victims of human trafficking are just as likely to be foreign as native
16 to Louisiana, and potentially unable to speak or read English; and
17 WHEREAS, the addition of the languages of Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese
18 will allow more victims to come forward and receive the protections and services needed to
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1 escape the harmful environment in which they find themselves; and
2 WHEREAS, these language barriers create additional grounds for exploitation of an
3 already vulnerable population.
4 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
5 does hereby urge and request the Louisiana Department of Health, Department of
6 Transportation and Development, and Department of Revenue, office of alcohol and
7 tobacco, to post on their websites a sample posting with information regarding the National
8 Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Whitney Kauffeld.
DIGEST
SR 179 Original 2022 Regular Session Mizell
Urges and requests the Louisiana Department of Health, Department of Transportation and
Development, and Department of Revenue, office of alcohol and tobacco, to post
information regarding the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline in Mandarin,
Cantonese, and Vietnamese.
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