84R7809 AAF-D
By: Parker, Meyer H.B. No. 2290
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to designating January as Human Trafficking Prevention
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 662.107 to read as follows:
Sec. 662.107. HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION MONTH.
(a) January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month to increase
awareness of human trafficking in an effort to encourage people to
alert authorities to any suspected incidents involving human
trafficking.
(b) Human Trafficking Prevention Month may be regularly
observed through appropriate activities in public schools and other
places to increase awareness and prevention of human trafficking.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.