By:  Smith, Dalton                                     H.B. No. 308
       73R1090 NSC-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to state benefits received by a person convicted of an
    1-3  offense under the Texas Controlled Substances Act.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Health and Safety Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Section 481.134 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 481.134.  DENIAL OF BENEFITS.  Notwithstanding any other
    1-8  law, a person convicted of an offense under this chapter may not
    1-9  receive from the state a loan, grant, salary, or other payment
   1-10  other than:
   1-11              (1)  a payment in satisfaction of wages earned or a
   1-12  contract; or
   1-13              (2)  a pension to which the person has vested benefits.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-15  applies to any payment that would otherwise be made to a person
   1-16  convicted of an offense under Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code,
   1-17  committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-18        (b)  For the purpose of this section, an offense is committed
   1-19  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
   1-20  occurs before the effective date.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.