Tex. Health & Safety Code § 328.002 · Chapter 328. HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION IN CERTAIN FACILITIES
HUMAN TRAFFICKING SIGNS REQUIRED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A facility shall display a sign, at least 11 inches by 17 inches in size, written in at least a 16-point font and in the form prescribed by the attorney general, that includes:
(1) the following statements:
(A) "All health care practitioners and medical assistants are required to receive human trafficking prevention training."; and
(B) "An employee may not be disciplined, retaliated against, or otherwise discriminated against for reporting in good faith a suspected act of human trafficking.";
(2) information on recognizing and reporting human trafficking and a list of human trafficking indicators;
(3) a phone number the attorney general designates for reporting a suspected act of human trafficking or a violation of this chapter; and
(4) contact information for reporting suspicious activity to the Department of Public Safety.
(b) The sign described by Subsection (a) must be posted:
(1) in a location easily visible to all facility employees; and
(2) separately in English, Spanish, and any other primary language spoken by 10 percent or more of the facility's employees.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 376 (H.B. 754), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.328.V2.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
- the Legislature enacted more than one unit numbered 328.002; this is the one the Council prints in hs.328.v2.htm
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