By: Meza, et al. (Senate Sponsor - West, et al.) H.B. No. 3464
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2025;
  May 7, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
  Justice; May 21, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0;
  May 21, 2025, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3464 By:  Flores
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of
  providing or possessing with the intent to provide an alcoholic
  beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug to a person in
  the custody of a correctional facility, taking an alcoholic
  beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug into a
  correctional facility, and taking a controlled substance or
  dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by a
  correctional facility.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 38.11, Penal Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (g) and adding Subsections (g-1) and (g-2) to
  read as follows:
         (g)  Except as otherwise provided by Subsections (g-1) and
  (g-2), an [An] offense under this section is a felony of the third
  degree.
         (g-1)  Except as otherwise provided by Subsection (g-2), an
  offense under Subsection (a)(1), (b), or (c) committed with respect
  to a correctional facility is a felony of the second degree if the
  actor is employed by the correctional facility.
         (g-2)  An offense under Subsection (a)(1), (b), or (c)
  committed with respect to a correctional facility is a felony of the
  first degree punishable by imprisonment in the Texas Department of
  Criminal Justice for life or for a term of not more than 99 years or
  less than 15 years, and a fine not to exceed $250,000 if:
               (1)  the actor is employed by the correctional
  facility; and
               (2)  the ingestion, inhalation, injection, or other
  administration of the controlled substance or dangerous drug that
  is the subject of the offense causes the death of a person in the
  custody of the correctional facility.
         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, 2025.
 
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