Bill Text: TX SB1583 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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
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 | S.B. No. 1583 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2015; March 23, 2015, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services; | ||
May 4, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 4, 2015, sent | ||
to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1583 | By: Taylor of Collin |
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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. | ||
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