2022 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 179
BY SENATOR MIZELL
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request the Louisiana Department of Health, Department of Transportation and
Development, and Department of Revenue, office of alcohol and tobacco control, to
post on their websites, a sample posting with information regarding the National
Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline in Mandarin, Cantonese, and
Vietnamese.
WHEREAS, Louisiana law requires that the Louisiana Department of Health,
Department of Transportation and Development, and Department of Revenue, office of
alcohol and tobacco control, post a sample poster on their websites for those businesses they
oversee that are required by law to post such notices in a prominent location within the
building; and
WHEREAS, as a result of greater tourism in Louisiana, there exists a greater
diversity of languages spoken by the population since the last decennial census, including
Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese; and
WHEREAS, there has been a thirty-two percent increase in the Asian population in
Louisiana since the last decennial census; and
WHEREAS, victims of human trafficking are just as likely to be foreign as native
to Louisiana, and potentially unable to speak or read English; and
WHEREAS, the addition of the languages of Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese
will allow more victims to come forward and receive the protections and services needed to
escape the harmful environment in which they find themselves; and
WHEREAS, these language barriers create additional grounds for exploitation of an
already vulnerable population.
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby urge and request the Louisiana Department of Health, Department of
Transportation and Development, and Department of Revenue, office of alcohol and
tobacco, to post on their websites a sample posting with information regarding the National
Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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