1-1     By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1116
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to an exception to the offense of contributing to the
 1-9     delinquency of a narcotic addict.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 463, Health and Safety
1-12     Code, is amended by adding Section 463.013 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 463.013.  EXCEPTION.  (a)  In this section, "informant"
1-14     means a person who has communicated information to a law
1-15     enforcement official in connection with a law enforcement function.
1-16           (b)  It is an exception to the application of Section
1-17     463.011(b) that the person is a law enforcement official and the
1-18     narcotic addict is an informant.
1-19           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies to an offense
1-21     committed before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
1-22     However, a final conviction for an offense under Section 463.011,
1-23     Health and Safety Code, that exists on the effective date of this
1-24     Act is unaffected by this Act.
1-25           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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