Bill Text: TX HB293 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 293 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the distribution, sale, or offer for sale of a mislabeled abusable synthetic substance through the Internet.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-13 - Left pending in committee [HB293 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB293-Introduced.html

	85R1459 GCB-D

	By: Muñoz, Jr.	H.B. No. 293



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the distribution, sale, or offer for sale of a
	mislabeled abusable synthetic substance through the Internet.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 484.001(2), Health and Safety Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(2) "Business" includes trade and commerce and
	advertising, selling, and buying service or property and the use of
	the Internet to perform these activities.
	SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act to Section
	484.001(2), Health and Safety Code, applies only to conduct
	constituting an offense or forming the basis for a civil cause of
	action that accrues on or after the effective date of this Act.
	(b) 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, 2017.