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.