(a) The department shall provide:
- (1) to migrant agricultural workers in different regions of the state, educational materials or programs that are presented in English, Spanish, and other languages as appropriate and that inform the workers of their rights and remedies under this subchapter; and
- (2) to persons who own, establish, maintain, operate, procure, make arrangements for, or otherwise provide migrant labor housing facilities, educational materials or programs that are presented in English, Spanish, and other languages as appropriate and that inform the persons of their obligations under this subchapter.
(b) To better provide the services described by Subsection (a), the department shall:
- (1) ensure that, in each region of the state where migrant labor housing facilities are most common, there are persons capable of providing the information described by Subsection (a) in English, Spanish, and other languages as appropriate; and
(2) conduct research, including by surveying migrant agricultural workers, concerning:
- (A) what types of migrant labor housing facilities are most common in different regions of the state; and
- (B) what regions of the state most need additional or improved migrant labor housing facilities.
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 695 (S.B. 243), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.