Tex. Health & Safety Code § 50.0051 · Subchapter B. MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM FOR MUNICIPAL SEX TRAFFICKING PREVENTION PROGRAMS
ESTABLISHMENT OF MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission shall establish a matching grant program to award to a municipality a grant in an amount equal to the amount committed by the municipality for the development of a sex trafficking prevention needs assessment. A municipality that is awarded a grant must develop the needs assessment in collaboration with a local institution of higher education and on completion submit a copy of the needs assessment to the commission.
(b) A sex trafficking prevention needs assessment developed under Subsection (a) must outline:
(1) the prevalence of sex trafficking crimes in the municipality;
(2) strategies for reducing the number of sex trafficking crimes in the municipality; and
(3) the municipality's need for additional funding for sex trafficking prevention programs and initiatives.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 413 (S.B. 20), Sec. 5.01, eff. September 1, 2019.
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