Tex. Health & Safety Code § 50.0152 · Subchapter D. TRAFFICKED PERSONS GRANT PROGRAM
PURPOSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The purpose of the trafficked persons program account is to provide money:
(1) to substantiate this state's interest in publicly operated and funded shelter and treatment for victims of an offense of trafficking of persons as defined by Article 56B.003, Code of Criminal Procedure;
(2) to prevent the recruitment of human trafficking victims within mixed-status child, youth, and young adult shelters;
(3) for consistent and recurring funding of long-term solutions for providing research-based treatment and safe and secure shelter to child, youth, and young adult victims of human trafficking;
(4) for financial stability of local governments, private partners, and medical facilities in planning, building, and maintaining dedicated housing and recovery programs for victims of human trafficking; and
(5) to raise awareness of the account among businesses and philanthropists in this state and to strengthen public and private partnerships established to end the practice of human trafficking.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 704 (H.B. 2633), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2021.
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