Bill Text: TX HB2429 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the use of benzodiazepines or gamma butyrolactone to facilitate the commission of the offense of aggravated sexual assault and the addition of gamma butyrolactone to Penalty Group 1 of the Texas Controlled Substances Act for purposes of criminal prosecution; amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-22 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB2429 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2429-Introduced.html
  85R12607 GCB-F
 
  By: Dukes H.B. No. 2429
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the prosecution and punishment of the use of
  benzodiazepines or gamma butyrolactone to facilitate the
  commission of the offense of aggravated sexual assault and the
  addition of gamma butyrolactone to Penalty Group 1 of the Texas
  Controlled Substances Act for purposes of criminal prosecution;
  amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 22.021(a), Penal Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  A person commits an offense:
               (1)  if the person:
                     (A)  intentionally or knowingly:
                           (i)  causes the penetration of the anus or
  sexual organ of another person by any means, without that person's
  consent;
                           (ii)  causes the penetration of the mouth of
  another person by the sexual organ of the actor, without that
  person's consent; or
                           (iii)  causes the sexual organ of another
  person, without that person's consent, to contact or penetrate the
  mouth, anus, or sexual organ of another person, including the
  actor; or
                     (B)  intentionally or knowingly:
                           (i)  causes the penetration of the anus or
  sexual organ of a child by any means;
                           (ii)  causes the penetration of the mouth of
  a child by the sexual organ of the actor;
                           (iii)  causes the sexual organ of a child to
  contact or penetrate the mouth, anus, or sexual organ of another
  person, including the actor;
                           (iv)  causes the anus of a child to contact
  the mouth, anus, or sexual organ of another person, including the
  actor; or
                           (v)  causes the mouth of a child to contact
  the anus or sexual organ of another person, including the actor; and
               (2)  if:
                     (A)  the person:
                           (i)  causes serious bodily injury or
  attempts to cause the death of the victim or another person in the
  course of the same criminal episode;
                           (ii)  by acts or words places the victim in
  fear that any person will become the victim of an offense under
  Section 20A.02(a)(3), (4), (7), or (8) or that death, serious
  bodily injury, or kidnapping will be imminently inflicted on any
  person;
                           (iii)  by acts or words occurring in the
  presence of the victim threatens to cause any person to become the
  victim of an offense under Section 20A.02(a)(3), (4), (7), or (8) or
  to cause the death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping of any
  person;
                           (iv)  uses or exhibits a deadly weapon in the
  course of the same criminal episode;
                           (v)  acts in concert with another who
  engages in conduct described by Subdivision (1) directed toward the
  same victim and occurring during the course of the same criminal
  episode; or
                           (vi)  administers or provides a
  benzodiazepine, flunitrazepam, otherwise known as rohypnol, gamma
  butyrolactone, gamma hydroxybutyrate, or ketamine to the victim of
  the offense with the intent of facilitating the commission of the
  offense;
                     (B)  the victim is younger than 14 years of age; or
                     (C)  the victim is an elderly individual or a
  disabled individual.
         SECTION 2.  Section 22.021(b), Penal Code, is amended by
  adding Subdivision (4) to read as follows:
               (4)  "Benzodiazepine" means any drug included in the
  class of drugs of the same name, that:
                     (A)  produce a depressant effect on the central
  nervous system; and
                     (B)  are characterized by a benzene ring fused to
  a seven-member diazepine ring.
         SECTION 3.  Section 481.102, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 481.102.  PENALTY GROUP 1. Penalty Group 1 consists of:
               (1)  the following opiates, including their isomers,
  esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, esters, and ethers,
  unless specifically excepted, if the existence of these isomers,
  esters, ethers, and salts is possible within the specific chemical
  designation:
                     Alfentanil;
                     Allylprodine;
                     Alphacetylmethadol;
                     Benzethidine;
                     Betaprodine;
                     Clonitazene;
                     Diampromide;
                     Diethylthiambutene;
                     Difenoxin not listed in Penalty Group 3 or 4;
                     Dimenoxadol;
                     Dimethylthiambutene;
                     Dioxaphetyl butyrate;
                     Dipipanone;
                     Ethylmethylthiambutene;
                     Etonitazene;
                     Etoxeridine;
                     Furethidine;
                     Hydroxypethidine;
                     Ketobemidone;
                     Levophenacylmorphan;
                     Meprodine;
                     Methadol;
                     Moramide;
                     Morpheridine;
                     Noracymethadol;
                     Norlevorphanol;
                     Normethadone;
                     Norpipanone;
                     Phenadoxone;
                     Phenampromide;
                     Phenomorphan;
                     Phenoperidine;
                     Piritramide;
                     Proheptazine;
                     Properidine;
                     Propiram;
                     Sufentanil;
                     Tilidine; and
                     Trimeperidine;
               (2)  the following opium derivatives, their salts,
  isomers, and salts of isomers, unless specifically excepted, if the
  existence of these salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible
  within the specific chemical designation:
                     Acetorphine;
                     Acetyldihydrocodeine;
                     Benzylmorphine;
                     Codeine methylbromide;
                     Codeine-N-Oxide;
                     Cyprenorphine;
                     Desomorphine;
                     Dihydromorphine;
                     Drotebanol;
                     Etorphine, except hydrochloride salt;
                     Heroin;
                     Hydromorphinol;
                     Methyldesorphine;
                     Methyldihydromorphine;
                     Monoacetylmorphine;
                     Morphine methylbromide;
                     Morphine methylsulfonate;
                     Morphine-N-Oxide;
                     Myrophine;
                     Nicocodeine;
                     Nicomorphine;
                     Normorphine;
                     Pholcodine; and
                     Thebacon;
               (3)  the following substances, however produced,
  except those narcotic drugs listed in another group:
                     (A)  Opium and opiate not listed in Penalty Group
  3 or 4, and a salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or
  opiate, other than thebaine derived butorphanol, nalmefene and its
  salts, naloxone and its salts, and naltrexone and its salts, but
  including:
                           Codeine not listed in Penalty Group 3 or 4;
                           Dihydroetorphine;
                           Ethylmorphine not listed in Penalty Group 3
  or 4;
                           Granulated opium;
                           Hydrocodone not listed in Penalty Group 3;
                           Hydromorphone;
                           Metopon;
                           Morphine not listed in Penalty Group 3;
                           Opium extracts;
                           Opium fluid extracts;
                           Oripavine;
                           Oxycodone;
                           Oxymorphone;
                           Powdered opium;
                           Raw opium;
                           Thebaine; and
                           Tincture of opium;
                     (B)  a salt, compound, isomer, derivative, or
  preparation of a substance that is chemically equivalent or
  identical to a substance described by Paragraph (A), other than the
  isoquinoline alkaloids of opium;
                     (C)  Opium poppy and poppy straw;
                     (D)  Cocaine, including:
                           (i)  its salts, its optical, position, and
  geometric isomers, and the salts of those isomers;
                           (ii)  coca leaves and a salt, compound,
  derivative, or preparation of coca leaves;
                           (iii)  a salt, compound, derivative, or
  preparation of a salt, compound, or derivative that is chemically
  equivalent or identical to a substance described by Subparagraph
  (i) or (ii), other than decocainized coca leaves or extractions of
  coca leaves that do not contain cocaine or ecgonine; and
                     (E)  concentrate of poppy straw, meaning the crude
  extract of poppy straw in liquid, solid, or powder form that
  contains the phenanthrine alkaloids of the opium poppy;
               (4)  the following opiates, including their isomers,
  esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, if the existence of
  these isomers, esters, ethers, and salts is possible within the
  specific chemical designation:
                     Acetyl-alpha-methylfentanyl (N-[1-(1-methyl-2-
  phenethyl)-4-piperidinyl]-N-phenylacetamide);
                     Alpha-methylthiofentanyl (N-[1-methyl-2-(2-
  thienyl)ethyl-4-piperidinyl]-N-phenylpropanamide);
                     Alphaprodine;
                     Anileridine;
                     Beta-hydroxyfentanyl (N-[1-(2-hydroxy-2-
  phenethyl)-4-piperidinyl] -N-phenylpropanamide);
                     Beta-hydroxy-3-methylfentanyl;
                     Bezitramide;
                     Carfentanil;
                     Dihydrocodeine not listed in Penalty Group 3 or 4;
                     Diphenoxylate not listed in Penalty Group 3 or 4;
                     Fentanyl or alpha-methylfentanyl, or any other
  derivative of Fentanyl;
                     Isomethadone;
                     Levomethorphan;
                     Levorphanol;
                     Metazocine;
                     Methadone;
                     Methadone-Intermediate, 4-cyano-2-dimethylamino-
  4, 4-diphenyl butane;
                     3-methylfentanyl(N-[3-methyl-1-(2-phenylethyl)-
  4-piperidyl]-N-phenylpropanamide);
                     3-methylthiofentanyl(N-[3-methyl-1-(2-thienyl)
  ethyl-4-piperidinyl]-N-phenylpropanamide);
                     Moramide-Intermediate, 2-methyl-3-morpholino-1,
  1-diphenyl-propane-carboxylic acid;
                     Para-fluorofentanyl(N-(4-fluorophenyl)-N-1-(2-
  phenylethyl)-4-piperidinylpropanamide);
                     PEPAP (1-(2-phenethyl)-4-phenyl-4-
  acetoxypiperidine);
                     Pethidine (Meperidine);
                     Pethidine-Intermediate-A, 4-cyano-1-methyl-4-
  phenylpiperidine;
                     Pethidine-Intermediate-B, ethyl-4-
  phenylpiperidine-4 carboxylate;
                     Pethidine-Intermediate-C, 1-methyl-4-
  phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid;
                     Phenazocine;
                     Piminodine;
                     Racemethorphan;
                     Racemorphan;
                     Remifentanil; and
                     Thiofentanyl(N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-thienyl)ethyl-4-
  piperidinyl]-propanamide);
               (5)  Flunitrazepam (trade or other name:  Rohypnol);
               (6)  Methamphetamine, including its salts, optical
  isomers, and salts of optical isomers;
               (7)  Phenylacetone and methylamine, if possessed
  together with intent to manufacture methamphetamine;
               (8)  Phencyclidine, including its salts;
               (9)  Gamma butyrolactone (trade or other name: GBL);
               (10)  Gamma hydroxybutyric acid (some trade or other
  names:  gamma hydroxybutyrate, GHB), including its salts; and
               (11) [(10)]  Ketamine.
         SECTION 4.  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 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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