By Counts                                             H.B. No. 3278

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                                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.