Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 1070 amends provisions of the Texas Controlled Substances Act to make updates and substantive revisions to the act. The act deletes the schedules of controlled substances from the statutes and requires the commissioner of public health to annually establish and modify the schedules with approval of the Texas Board of Health. The schedules will be published in the Texas Register. The act deletes Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) from Penalty Group 1 and adds it to the newly created Penalty Group 1-A, criminalizing the possession, manufacture, and delivery of LSD in terms of very small "abuse units" rather than grams. The act adds Rohypnol (the "date rape" drug) to Penalty Group 1. The act also replaces the triplicate prescription system for the dispensation of controlled substances with a system that allows the Department of Public Safety to receive prescription information by electronic means.

            This act takes effect January 1, 1998, except that the provision requiring the commissioner to establish or modify schedules of controlled substances takes effect September 1, 1997, and provisions relating to the triplicate prescription program take effect September 1, 1999.