Section 50.0051 - Establishment of Matching Grant Program(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.Tex. Health and Safety Code § 50.0051
Added by Acts 2019, Texas Acts of the 86th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 413,Sec. 5.01, eff. 9/1/2019.