SB 679

relating to the controlled substances listed in Penalty Group 1
under the Texas Controlled Substances Act.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1.  Section 481.102, Health and Safety Code, is
Sec. 481.102.  PENALTY GROUP 1.  Penalty Group 1 consists
(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
Difenoxin not listed in Penalty Group 3 or 4;
(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:
Etorphine, except hydrochloride salt;
(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
Codeine not listed in Penalty Group 3 or 4;
Ethylmorphine not listed in Penalty Group 3
Hydrocodone not listed in Penalty Group 3;
Morphine not listed in Penalty Group 3;
(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;
(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; and
(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
Dihydrocodeine not listed in Penalty Group 3 or 4;
Diphenoxylate not listed in Penalty Group 3 or 4;
Methadone-Intermediate, 4-cyano-2-dimethylamino-
Moramide-Intermediate, 2-methyl-3-morpholino-1,
1-diphenyl-propane-carboxylic acid;
PEPAP (1-(2-phenethyl)-4-phenyl-4-
Pethidine-Intermediate-A, 4-cyano-1-methyl-4-
Pethidine-Intermediate-B, ethyl-4-
phenylpiperidine-4 carboxylate;
Pethidine-Intermediate-C, 1-methyl-4-
phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid;
(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 hydroxybutyric acid (some trade or other
names: gamma hydroxybutyrate, GHB), including its salts;
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
SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.