By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1197
       73R5852 RWS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the exemption of certain substances from Schedules I-V
    1-3  of the Texas Controlled Substances Act.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 481.037, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  A nonnarcotic prescription substance is exempted from
    1-8  Schedules I through V and the application of this chapter to the
    1-9  same extent that the substance has been exempted from the
   1-10  application of the Federal Controlled Substances Act, if the
   1-11  substance is listed as an exempt prescription product under 21
   1-12  C.F.R. 1308.32 and its subsequent amendments.
   1-13        (f)  A chemical substance that is intended for laboratory,
   1-14  industrial, educational, or special research purposes and not for
   1-15  general administration to a human being or other animal is exempted
   1-16  from Schedules I through V and the application of this chapter to
   1-17  the same extent that the substance has been exempted from the
   1-18  application of the Federal Controlled Substances Act, if the
   1-19  substance is listed as an exempt chemical preparation under 21
   1-20  C.F.R. 1308.24 and its subsequent amendments.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  The exemption of a substance under Sections
   1-22  481.037(e) and (f), Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act,
   1-23  does not apply to an offense committed under Chapter 481, Health
   1-24  and Safety Code, before the effective date of this Act.  An offense
    2-1  committed before that date is covered by the law as it existed on
    2-2  the date on which the offense was committed, and the former law is
    2-3  continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-5        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.