Bill Text: TX HB253 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 253

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the use, possession, delivery, or manufacture of testing equipment that identifies the presence of a substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-27 - Referred to Public Health [HB253 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB253-Introduced.html

	89R434 CJD-F

	By: Talarico	H.B. No. 253



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the use, possession, delivery, or manufacture of
	testing equipment that identifies the presence of a substance
	listed in Penalty Group 1-B.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 481.125, Health and Safety Code, is
	amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
	(j) This section does not apply to a person who uses,
	possesses with intent to use, delivers, possesses with intent to
	deliver, or manufactures with intent to deliver testing equipment
	that identifies the presence of a substance listed in Penalty Group
	1-B.
	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 at the time 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.