Bill Text: TX SB1583 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to classifying synthetic cannabinoid or cathinone as a Schedule I controlled substance under the Texas Controlled Substances Act; affecting the prosecution of a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-26 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1583 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1583-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Taylor of Collin, et al. | S.B. No. 1583 | |
| (Fletcher) | ||
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| relating to classifying synthetic cannabinoid or cathinone as a | ||
| Schedule I controlled substance under the Texas Controlled | ||
| Substances Act; affecting the prosecution of a criminal offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 481, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 481.038 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 481.038. SYNTHETIC CANNABINOID OR CATHINONE. | ||
| (a) Schedule I includes any synthetic cannabinoid or cathinone | ||
| designer drug that is not regulated by the United States Food and | ||
| Drug Administration or by the laws of this state but that is similar | ||
| by structure or pharmacological effect to a Schedule I or II | ||
| controlled substance that is regulated under federal law or the | ||
| laws of this state. For purposes of this section, a substance is | ||
| similar by structure or pharmacological effect to a Schedule I or II | ||
| controlled substance if the substance contains a majority of | ||
| functional features in a similar chemical structural arrangement or | ||
| otherwise mimics the pharmacological effect of a Schedule I or II | ||
| controlled substance. | ||
| (b) Any compound of a designer drug described by Subsection | ||
| (a) that is manufactured, formulated, sold, distributed, or | ||
| marketed with the intent to circumvent the law under this chapter or | ||
| federal law is a Schedule I controlled substance. | ||
| (c) Examples of synthetic cannabinoid designer drugs | ||
| include substances that are generated using a three-component | ||
| pharmacophore model. Synthetic cannabinoid designer drugs that | ||
| contain one or more components of a controlled substance in | ||
| Schedule I or II under federal or state law are analogues of | ||
| Schedule I or II controlled substances. | ||
| (d) Nothing in this section affects an exemption provided | ||
| under state law to a person who possesses for a lawful purpose a | ||
| chemical formula defined as a controlled substance. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
