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.