Bill Text: TX HB166 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to committing the criminal offense of endangering a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual by engaging in certain conduct involving a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B of the Texas Controlled Substances Act.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Passed) 2025-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB166 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB166-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 166 | ||
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| relating to committing the criminal offense of endangering a child, | ||
| elderly individual, or disabled individual by engaging in certain | ||
| conduct involving a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group | ||
| 1-B of the Texas Controlled Substances Act. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 22.041(c-1), Penal Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (c-1) For purposes of Subsection (c), it is presumed that a | ||
| person engaged in conduct that places a child, elderly individual, | ||
| or disabled individual in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, | ||
| or physical or mental impairment if: | ||
| (1) the person manufactured, possessed, or in any way | ||
| introduced into the body of any person the controlled substance | ||
| methamphetamine or a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group | ||
| 1-B, Section 481.1022, Health and Safety Code, in the presence of | ||
| the child, elderly individual, or disabled individual; | ||
| (2) the person's conduct related to the proximity or | ||
| accessibility of the controlled substance methamphetamine or a | ||
| controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B, Section 481.1022, | ||
| Health and Safety Code, to the child, elderly individual, or | ||
| disabled individual and an analysis of a specimen of the child's or | ||
| individual's blood, urine, or other bodily substance indicates the | ||
| presence of methamphetamine or a controlled substance listed in | ||
| Penalty Group 1-B in the body of the child or individual; or | ||
| (3) the person injected, ingested, inhaled, or | ||
| otherwise introduced a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group | ||
| 1, Section 481.102, Health and Safety Code, or Penalty Group 1-B, | ||
| Section 481.1022, Health and Safety Code, into the human body when | ||
| the person was not in lawful possession of the substance as defined | ||
| by Section 481.002(24) of that code. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 166 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 166 was passed by the Senate on May 9, | ||
| 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
