| 1 | 1 | | By: Hinojosa of Hidalgo S.B. No. 1936 |
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| 6 | 6 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 7 | 7 | | AN ACT |
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| 8 | 8 | | relating to the definition of an abuse unit for certain controlled |
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| 9 | 9 | | substances under the Texas Controlled Substances Act. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Section 481.002(50), Health and Safety Code, is |
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| 12 | 12 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (50) "Abuse unit" means: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (A) except as provided by Paragraph (B): |
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| 15 | 15 | | (i) a single unit on or in any adulterant, |
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| 16 | 16 | | dilutant, or similar carrier medium, including marked or perforated |
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| 17 | 17 | | blotter paper, a tablet, gelatin wafer, sugar cube, or stamp, or |
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| 18 | 18 | | other medium that contains any amount of a controlled substance |
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| 19 | 19 | | listed in Penalty Group 1-A, if the unit is commonly used in abuse |
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| 20 | 20 | | of that substance; or |
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| 21 | 21 | | (ii) each 10 milligrams [quarter-inch |
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| 22 | 22 | | square section] of paper, calculated by rounding the weight down to |
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| 23 | 23 | | the nearest whole number, if the adulterant, dilutant, or carrier |
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| 24 | 24 | | medium is paper not marked or perforated into individual abuse |
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| 25 | 25 | | units; or |
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| 26 | 26 | | (B) if the controlled substance is in liquid or |
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| 27 | 27 | | solid form, 40 micrograms of the controlled substance including any |
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| 28 | 28 | | adulterant or dilutant. |
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| 29 | 29 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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| 30 | 30 | | to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. |
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| 31 | 31 | | An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is |
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| 32 | 32 | | governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, |
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| 33 | 33 | | and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For |
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| 34 | 34 | | purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the |
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| 35 | 35 | | effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred |
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| 36 | 36 | | before that date. |
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| 37 | 37 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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