| TO: | Honorable Myra Crownover, Chair, House Committee on Public Health |
| FROM: | Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB3651 by Coleman (Relating to the manufacture, sale, distribution, possession, and use of drugs not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration and the false representation that a substance is a drug approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration; creating criminal offenses.), As Introduced |
The provisions of the bill addressing felony sanctions are the subject of this analysis. The bill would amend the Health and Safety Code to create several new offenses related to manufacture, sale, distribution, possession, use, and false representation of certain unapproved drugs. These offenses would be punishable at various felony and misdemeanor levels depending on the circumstances of the offense.
Expanding the types of behaviors subject to criminal penalties is expected to result in increased demand on the correctional resources of the state due to additional persons potentially placed under felony community supervision or admitted into state correctional facilities. Statewide data do not exist to indicate the prevalence of the behaviors prohibited in the bill. However, this analysis assumes the bill's provisions would not result in a significant impact on state correctional populations, programs, or workloads.
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| LBB Staff: | UP, LM, ESi
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