1-1     By:  Delisi (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)             H.B. No. 2213

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 16, 1997;

 1-3     May 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 1997, reported favorably by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to municipal and county policies regarding enforcement of

1-10     certain drug laws.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Chapter 370, Local Government Code, is amended by

1-13     adding Section 370.003 to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 370.003.  MUNICIPAL OR COUNTY POLICY REGARDING

1-15     ENFORCEMENT OF DRUG LAWS.  The governing body of a municipality,

1-16     the commissioners court of a county, or a sheriff, municipal police

1-17     department, municipal attorney, county attorney, district attorney,

1-18     or criminal district attorney may not adopt a policy under which

1-19     the entity will not fully enforce laws relating to drugs, including

1-20     Chapters 481 and 483, Health and Safety Code, and federal law.

1-21           SECTION 2.  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

1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.

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