Bill Text: TX HB3144 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to designating October as Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Month.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3144 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3144-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3144 | ||
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| relating to designating October as Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness | ||
| Month. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 662, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 662.116 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.116. FENTANYL POISONING AWARENESS MONTH. (a) | ||
| October is Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Month to increase awareness | ||
| of the dangers of fentanyl and potential overdoses. | ||
| (b) Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Month may be regularly | ||
| observed through appropriate activities in communities to increase | ||
| awareness of the dangers of fentanyl and potential overdoses. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3144 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3144 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
