By: Moody H.B. No. 2386
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the confidentiality of certain information regarding
  procedures and substances used in the execution of a convict.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 552.1081, Government Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 552.1081.  EXCEPTION: CONFIDENTIALITY OF CERTAIN
  INFORMATION REGARDING EXECUTION OF CONVICT.  (a) Information is
  excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021 if it contains
  identifying information under Article 43.14, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, including that of[:
               (1)]  any person who participates in an execution
  procedure, including a person who uses[, supplies,] or administers
  a substance during the execution.[; and
               (2)  any person or]
         (b)  This section does not except from the requirements of
  Section 552.021 information identifying any entity that
  manufactures, transports, tests, procures, compounds, prescribes,
  dispenses, or provides a substance or supplies used in an
  execution.
         SECTION 2.  Article 43.14, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Art. 43.14.  EXECUTION OF CONVICT: CONFIDENTIAL
  INFORMATION.  (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 correctional institutions division of the Texas Department
  of Criminal Justice.
         (b)  The name, address, and other identifying information of
  any person who participates in an execution procedure described by
  Subsection (a), including a person who uses or administers a
  substance during the execution, [the following] is confidential and
  excepted from disclosure under Section 552.021, Government Code.[:
               (1)  any person who participates in an execution
  procedure described by Subsection (a), including a person who uses,
  supplies, or administers a substance during the execution; and
               (2)  any person or]
         (c)  The name, address, and other identifying information of
  any entity that manufactures, transports, tests, procures,
  compounds, prescribes, dispenses, or provides a substance or
  supplies used in an execution is not confidential and not excepted
  from disclosure under Section 552.021, Government Code.
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies to
  information, records, and notations collected, made, assembled, or
  maintained on, before, or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.