Highlights of the 79th Texas Legislature - Senate

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/JUVENILES
• provide or attempt to provide an alcoholic beverage, controlled substance, dangerous drug, deadly weapon,
cellular phone, cigarette, tobacco product, or money to a youth in a secure juvenile correctional or detention
facility;
• take or attempt to take an alcoholic beverage, controlled substance, or dangerous drug into a secure
juvenile correctional or detention facility;
• take a controlled substance or dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by TYC or by any
secure juvenile correctional or detention facility; and
• possess a controlled substance or dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by TYC or by any
secure juvenile correctional or detention facility or possess a deadly weapon in a secure juvenile
correctional or detention facility.
Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution if a person is in possession of a personal prescription issued by a
practitioner or in possession while delivery to a warehouse, pharmacy, or physician on property owned and operated
by TYC or by any secure juvenile correctional or detention facility or if the actor is a duly authorized member of clergy
and consumes an alcoholic beverage or departs from the facility with a portion not consumed during religious
services.
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