87R8768 JSC-D     By: Crockett H.B. No. 3170       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the mandatory placement on deferred adjudication   community supervision of certain defendants charged with   possession of certain substances listed in Penalty Group 2 under   the Texas Controlled Substances Act.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal   Procedure, is amended by adding Article 42A.1025 to read as   follows:          Art. 42A.1025.  MANDATORY PLACEMENT ON DEFERRED   ADJUDICATION COMMUNITY SUPERVISION; CERTAIN DRUG POSSESSION   OFFENSES.  (a)  This article applies to an offense under Section   481.116, Health and Safety Code, if the controlled substance   possessed was a tetrahydrocannabinol, other than marihuana, or   synthetic equivalents of the substances contained in the plant, or   in the resinous extractives of Cannabis, or synthetic substances,   derivatives, or their isomers with similar chemical structure and   pharmacological activity.          (b)  A judge shall place a defendant charged with an offense   described by Subsection (a) on deferred adjudication community   supervision unless the defendant is otherwise ineligible for   deferred adjudication community supervision under Article   42A.102(b).          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, 2021.