Bill Text: TX HB673 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the amount of certain controlled substances in the body constituting intoxication for purposes of certain intoxication offenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-08 - Left pending in committee [HB673 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB673-Introduced.html
  84R4661 JSC-D
 
  By: Bell H.B. No. 673
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the amount of certain controlled substances in the body
  constituting intoxication for purposes of certain intoxication
  offenses.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 49.01(2), Penal Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
               (2)  "Intoxicated" means:
                     (A)  not having the normal use of mental or
  physical faculties by reason of the introduction of alcohol, a
  controlled substance, a drug, a dangerous drug, a combination of
  two or more of those substances, or any other substance into the
  body; [or]
                     (B)  having an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or
  more; or
                     (C)   having present in the body any detectable
  amount of a controlled substance or a metabolite of a controlled
  substance listed in:
                           (i)  Penalty Group 1 under Section 481.102,
  Health and Safety Code;
                           (ii)  Penalty Group 1-A under Section
  481.1021, Health and Safety Code; or 
                           (iii)  Penalty Group 2 under Section
  481.103, Health and Safety Code.
         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, 2015.
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