Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 2892 amends the Health and Safety Code to make it a second degree felony for a person to barter property or expend funds that were derived from the commission of the offense of possession of 50 to 2,000 pounds of marihuana or to barter property or finance or invest funds to further the commission of such offense. The bill makes it a first degree felony to barter property, in addition to expending, financing, or investing funds, that were derived from, or to further the commission of, an offense punishable by life imprisonment.

For an offense punishable as a state jail, third, or second degree felony, the bill increases the punishment by one degree if it is found that the defendant manufactured or delivered a controlled substance that caused the death or serious bodily injury of a person as a result of the controlled substance. The bill prevents the court from ordering the sentence to run concurrently with any other sentence imposed on the defendant.