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Amend CSSB 1697 (senate committee report) in SECTION 2 of the bill, in amended Article 43.14, Code of Criminal Procedure, (page 1, between lines 56 and 57) by inserting the following:
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (b) and Section 552.101, Government Code, on a determination by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice that there is a defect or complication with a substance to be used in an execution, the pharmacy that compounded the substance, or the laboratory that performed the requisite testing, the department immediately shall provide the attorney representing the convict all information regarding such defect(s). The attorney representing the convict may disclose the information only to an investigator, expert, consulting legal counsel, or agent for the attorney, and those individuals may not disclose the information to a third party.