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. 1-28 * * * * *