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Senate Bill 1125 |
Senate Author: Perry |
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Effective: 9-1-21 |
House Sponsor: Collier |
Senate Bill 1125 amends the Texas Controlled Substances Act, Health and Safety Code, to provide for the disposition of controlled substance property and plants to a crime laboratory for purposes of laboratory research, testing results validation, and training of analysts in lieu of destruction. The bill includes a criminal justice agency that has received a controlled substance property or plant forfeited under statute from a law enforcement agency for analysis and storage among the entities a district court may order to retain, deliver, or destroy the property or plant. The bill also provides for the destruction of controlled substance property and plants under certain circumstances by a crime laboratory as well as by a criminal justice agency to which a law enforcement agency has transferred the property or plant for analysis and storage.