Bill Text: TX HB3078 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to manufacturer fees for operation of a real-time electronic logging system to track over-the-counter sales of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or norpseudoephedrine; imposing a fee; authorizing an administrative penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-20 - Filed [HB3078 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3078-Introduced.html
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| By: Darby | H.B. No. 3078 | |
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| relating to manufacturer fees for operation of a real-time | ||
| electronic logging system to track over-the-counter sales of | ||
| ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or norpseudoephedrine; imposing a fee; | ||
| authorizing an administrative penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 486.001(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subdivision (7) to read as follows: | ||
| (7) "System administrator" means an entity | ||
| responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining a | ||
| real-time electronic logging system. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 486, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 486.016 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 486.016. MANUFACTURER FEES. (a) A manufacturer of a | ||
| product containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or | ||
| norpseudoephedrine sold in this state shall pay a monthly fee to the | ||
| system administrator of each real-time electronic logging system a | ||
| business establishment uses to transmit information on the | ||
| establishment's sales of the manufacturer's products to support the | ||
| establishment's use of the system. | ||
| (b) Each system administrator shall set a fair and | ||
| reasonable amount for the fee required under Subsection (a). | ||
| (c) At the department's request, a manufacturer shall | ||
| provide written documentation demonstrating the manufacturer paid | ||
| all fees required under Subsection (a). | ||
| (d) The department may impose an administrative penalty | ||
| under Subchapter C on a manufacturer that fails to pay the fee | ||
| required by Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 486.016, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to a fee imposed on or after the 30th | ||
| day after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
