By Counts H.B. No. 3278 75R8793 MCK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to designating the Texas National Guard as a law 1-3 enforcement agency in certain circumstances. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 431, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 431.046 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 431.046. PROPERTY FORFEITURE. When the Texas National 1-8 Guard assists a federal law enforcement agency in enforcing drug 1-9 laws, the Texas National Guard is considered to be a law 1-10 enforcement agency of the state for purposes of participating in 1-11 the sharing of property seized or forfeited to the United States 1-12 under federal law. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.