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| 1 | - | By: Parker, Meyer, Frullo H.B. No. 2290 | |
| 2 | - | (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) | |
| 3 | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015; | |
| 4 | - | May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on | |
| 5 | - | Administration; May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following | |
| 6 | - | vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.) | |
| 7 | - | Click here to see the committee vote | |
| 1 | + | H.B. No. 2290 | |
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| 10 | - | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 11 | 4 | AN ACT | |
| 12 | 5 | relating to designating January as Human Trafficking Prevention | |
| 13 | 6 | Month. | |
| 14 | 7 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 15 | 8 | SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 662, Government Code, is | |
| 16 | 9 | amended by adding Section 662.107 to read as follows: | |
| 17 | 10 | Sec. 662.107. HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION MONTH. | |
| 18 | 11 | (a) January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month to increase | |
| 19 | 12 | awareness of human trafficking in an effort to encourage people to | |
| 20 | 13 | alert authorities to any suspected incidents involving human | |
| 21 | 14 | trafficking. | |
| 22 | 15 | (b) Human Trafficking Prevention Month may be regularly | |
| 23 | 16 | observed through appropriate activities in public schools and other | |
| 24 | 17 | places to increase awareness and prevention of human trafficking. | |
| 25 | 18 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | |
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| 19 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ | |
| 20 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House | |
| 21 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 2290 was passed by the House on April | |
| 22 | + | 16, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 1, 2 present, not | |
| 23 | + | voting. | |
| 24 | + | ______________________________ | |
| 25 | + | Chief Clerk of the House | |
| 26 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 2290 was passed by the Senate on May | |
| 27 | + | 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | |
| 28 | + | ______________________________ | |
| 29 | + | Secretary of the Senate | |
| 30 | + | APPROVED: _____________________ | |
| 31 | + | Date | |
| 32 | + | _____________________ | |
| 33 | + | Governor |