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79R18 EMT-D

By:  Gallego                                                      H.B. No. 3396



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the use of the substance pancuronium bromide to execute 
an inmate sentenced to death.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Article 43.14, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Art. 43.14.  EXECUTION OF CONVICT.  (a) Whenever the 
sentence of death is pronounced against a convict, the sentence 
shall be executed at any time after the hour of 6 p.m. on the day set 
for the execution, by intravenous injection of a substance or 
substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death and until 
such convict is dead, such execution procedure to be determined and 
supervised by the Director of the institutional division of the 
Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
	(b)  The substance pancuronium bromide may not be used to 
execute a convict under this article.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the 
legislative session.