By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 2069
(Schaefer)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the required posting of signs regarding human
trafficking penalties by certain schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 37.086(a), (b), and (c), Education
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) In this section, "school"[:
[(1) "Premises" has the meaning assigned by Section
481.134, Health and Safety Code.
[(2) "School"] means a public [or private] primary or
secondary school.
(b) Each public school shall post warning signs of the
increased penalties for trafficking of persons under Section
20A.02(b-1)(2), Penal Code, in a [at the following locations:
[(1) parallel to and along the exterior boundaries of
the school's premises;
[(2) at each roadway or other way of access to the
premises;
[(3) for premises not fenced, at least every five
hundred feet along the exterior boundaries of the premises;
[(4) at each entrance to the premises; and
[(5) at] conspicuous place [places] reasonably likely
to be viewed by all school employees and visitors [persons entering
the premises].
(c) The agency, in consultation with the human trafficking
prevention task force created under Section 402.035, Government
Code, shall adopt rules regarding the [placement, installation,
design, size,] wording[, and maintenance procedures] for the
warning signs required under this section and requiring[. The
rules must require] that each warning sign:
(1) include a description of the provisions of Section
20A.02(b-1), Penal Code, including the penalties for violating that
section;
(2) be written in English and Spanish; and
(3) be at least 8-1/2 by 11 inches in size.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2023.