By Dukes H.B. No. 1719 76R7136 PEP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to designating certain substances as Schedule I or 1-3 Schedule III controlled substances under the Texas Controlled 1-4 Substances Act. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 481, Health and Safety 1-7 Code, is amended by adding Section 481.037 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 481.037. DESIGNATION OF CERTAIN SUBSTANCES. (a) 1-9 Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter: 1-10 (1) Schedule I includes gamma butyrolactone; and 1-11 (2) Schedule III includes: 1-12 (A) Androstenedione; and 1-13 (B) 19-Norandrostenedione. 1-14 (b) Notwithstanding Sections 481.032(a) and 481.034, the 1-15 commissioner may not modify: 1-16 (1) Schedule I to exclude gamma butyrolactone; or 1-17 (2) Schedule III to exclude Androstenedione or 1-18 19-Norandrostenedione. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.