1-1 By: Counts (Senate Sponsor - Patterson) H.B. No. 3278 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997; 1-3 April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Criminal Justice; May 18, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; 1-6 May 18, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3278 By: Patterson 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to designating the Texas National Guard Counterdrug 1-11 Support Program as a law enforcement agency in certain 1-12 circumstances. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 431, Government Code, is 1-15 amended by adding Section 431.046 to read as follows: 1-16 Sec. 431.046. PROPERTY FORFEITURE. When the Texas National 1-17 Guard Counterdrug Support Program assists a federal law enforcement 1-18 agency in enforcing drug laws, the Texas National Guard Counterdrug 1-19 Support Program is considered to be a law enforcement agency of the 1-20 state for the purpose of participating in the sharing of property 1-21 seized or forfeited to the United States under federal law. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-28 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-29 * * * * *