Public Chapter 149

HOUSE BILL NO. 15

By Representative Newton

Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 67

By Senator Miller

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4, relative to the scheduling of certain drugs.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-17-406, is amended by deleting the word "or" at the end of subsection (f)(1); deleting the period "." at the end of subsection (f)(2) and substituting instead the language "; or"; and by adding the following new subsection (f)(3):

(3) Methcathinone.

SECTION 2. The provisions of this act shall not be construed to be an appropriation of funds and no funds shall be obligated or expended pursuant to this act unless such funds are specifically appropriated by the general appropriations act.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.