By: Huffman  S.B. No. 227
         (In the Senate - Filed November 16, 2016; January 30, 2017,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  March 15, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; March 15, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to certain substances listed in Penalty Group 2 of the
  Texas Controlled Substances Act.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 481.103(d), Health and Safety Code, is
  repealed.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
  purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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