1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to designating the Texas National Guard Counterdrug 1-3 Support Program as a law enforcement agency in certain 1-4 circumstances. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 431, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 431.046 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 431.046. PROPERTY FORFEITURE. When the Texas National 1-9 Guard Counterdrug Support Program assists a federal law enforcement 1-10 agency in enforcing drug laws, the Texas National Guard Counterdrug 1-11 Support Program is considered to be a law enforcement agency of the 1-12 state for the purpose of participating in the sharing of property 1-13 seized or forfeited to the United States under federal law. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 3278 was passed by the House on April 25, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No. 3278 on May 24, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 3278 was passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 22, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor