Bill Text: TX SB992 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to misrepresentations in connection with certain drug testing devices or equipment; providing penalties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-29 - Left pending in committee [SB992 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB992-Comm_Sub.html
 
 
  By: Taylor  S.B. No. 992
         (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 2013; March 12, 2013, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
  April 8, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 1; April 8, 2013,
  sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 992 By:  Taylor
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to misrepresentations in connection with certain drug
  testing devices or equipment; providing penalties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 32.42, Penal Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
  follows:
         (b)  A person commits an offense if in the course of business
  he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal
  negligence commits one or more of the following deceptive business
  practices:
               (1)  using, selling, or possessing for use or sale a
  false weight or measure, or any other device for falsely
  determining or recording any quality or quantity;
               (2)  selling less than the represented quantity of a
  property or service;
               (3)  taking more than the represented quantity of
  property or service when as a buyer the actor furnishes the weight
  or measure;
               (4)  selling an adulterated or mislabeled commodity;
               (5)  passing off property or service as that of
  another;
               (6)  representing that a commodity is original or new
  if it is deteriorated, altered, rebuilt, reconditioned, reclaimed,
  used, or secondhand;
               (7)  representing that a commodity or service is of a
  particular style, grade, or model if it is of another;
               (8)  advertising property or service with intent:
                     (A)  not to sell it as advertised, or
                     (B)  not to supply reasonably expectable public
  demand, unless the advertising adequately discloses a time or
  quantity limit;
               (9)  representing the price of property or service
  falsely or in a way tending to mislead;
               (10)  making a materially false or misleading statement
  of fact concerning the reason for, existence of, or amount of a
  price or price reduction;
               (11)  conducting a deceptive sales contest; [or]
               (12)  making a materially false or misleading
  statement:
                     (A)  in an advertisement for the purchase or sale
  of property or service; or
                     (B)  otherwise in connection with the purchase or
  sale of property or service; or
               (13)  manufacturing, selling, or attempting to sell a
  drug testing device or equipment and representing that the device
  or equipment is capable of or certified for returning quantitative
  drug test results if the device or equipment has not been approved
  by the United States Food and Drug Administration to perform
  quantitative drug tests.
         (e)  An offense under Subsection (b)(13) is a Class C
  misdemeanor. Each violation of Subsection (b)(13) constitutes a
  separate offense.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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