Bill Text: TX SB1780 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to delivering, dispensing or distributing a controlled substance; creating a penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB1780 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1780-Introduced.html
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| By: Williams | S.B. No. 1780 | |
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| relating to delivering, dispensing or distributing a controlled | ||
| substance; creating a penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Texas Penal Code Section 71.02 is amended to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (a) A person commits an offense if, with the intent to establish, | ||
| maintain, or participate in a combination or in the profits of a | ||
| combination or as a member of a criminal street gang, the person | ||
| commits or conspires to commit one or more of the following: | ||
| (1) murder, capital murder, arson, aggravated | ||
| robbery, robbery, burglary, theft, aggravated kidnapping, | ||
| kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated sexual assault, sexual | ||
| assault, forgery, deadly conduct, assault punishable as a Class A | ||
| misdemeanor, burglary of a motor vehicle, or unauthorized use of a | ||
| motor vehicle; | ||
| (2) any gambling offense punishable as a Class A | ||
| misdemeanor; | ||
| (3) promotion of prostitution, aggravated promotion | ||
| of prostitution, or compelling prostitution; | ||
| (4) unlawful manufacture, transportation, repair, or | ||
| sale of firearms or prohibited weapons; | ||
| (5) unlawful manufacture, delivery, dispensation, or | ||
| distribution of a controlled substance or dangerous drug, or | ||
| unlawful possession of a controlled substance or dangerous drug | ||
| through forgery, fraud, misrepresentation, or deception; or | ||
| delivering, dispensing or distributing a controlled substance | ||
| while in violation of Title 3, Chapter 151, Chapter 165 and Chapter | ||
| 167 of the Texas Occupations Code. | ||
| (6) any unlawful wholesale promotion or possession of | ||
| any obscene material or obscene device with the intent to wholesale | ||
| promote the same; | ||
| (7) any offense under Subchapter B, Chapter 43, | ||
| depicting or involving conduct by or directed toward a child | ||
| younger than 18 years of age; | ||
| (8) any felony offense under Chapter 32; | ||
| (9) any offense under Chapter 36; | ||
| (10) any offense under Chapter 34 or 35; | ||
| (11) any offense under Section 37.11(a); | ||
| (12) any offense under Chapter 20A; | ||
| (13) any offense under Section 37.10; or | ||
| (14) any offense under Section 46.06(a)(1) or 46.14. | ||
| 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 | ||
| covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For the | ||
| purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
| effective date of this Act if any element of the offense was | ||
| committed before that date. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
