By: Lozano, Wu, Guillen H.B. No. 1424
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1424By: Whitmire By: Whitmire
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2015;
May 15, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
Justice; May 25, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
May 25, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to increasing penalties for defendants convicted of the
manufacture or delivery of certain controlled substances.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 481.119(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly
manufactures, delivers, or possesses with intent to deliver a
controlled substance listed in a schedule by an action of the
commissioner under this chapter but not listed in a penalty group.
An offense under this subsection is a Class A misdemeanor, except
that the offense is:
(1) a state jail felony, if the person has been
previously convicted of an offense under this subsection; or
(2) a felony of the third degree, if the person has
been previously convicted two or more times of an offense under this
subsection.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
before that date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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