By: Hinojosa of Hidalgo S.B. No. 1936
(In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2025; March 17, 2025, read
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
April 10, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
Nays 0; April 10, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the definition of an abuse unit for certain controlled
substances under the Texas Controlled Substances Act.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 481.002(50), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(50) "Abuse unit" means:
(A) except as provided by Paragraph (B):
(i) a single unit on or in any adulterant,
dilutant, or similar carrier medium, including marked or perforated
blotter paper, a tablet, gelatin wafer, sugar cube, or stamp, or
other medium that contains any amount of a controlled substance
listed in Penalty Group 1-A, if the unit is commonly used in abuse
of that substance; or
(ii) each 10 milligrams [quarter-inch
square section] of paper, calculated by rounding the weight down to
the nearest whole number, if the adulterant, dilutant, or carrier
medium is paper not marked or perforated into individual abuse
units; or
(B) if the controlled substance is in liquid or
solid form, 40 micrograms of the controlled substance including any
adulterant or dilutant.
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, 2025.
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