Bill Text: TX HB1587 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to disclosing certain information about each substance used to execute a person convicted of capital murder.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-30 - Left pending in committee [HB1587 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1587-Introduced.html
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By: Canales | H.B. No. 1587 |
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relating to disclosing certain information about each substance | ||
used to execute a person convicted of capital murder. | ||
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 PERSON CONVICTED OF CAPITAL MURDER | ||
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against a person convicted of capital murder [ |
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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 the person [ |
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procedure to be determined and supervised by the director of the | ||
correctional institutions division of the Texas Department of | ||
Criminal Justice. | ||
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), not later than the | ||
45th day before the date an execution is scheduled to occur, the | ||
director of the correctional institutions division of the Texas | ||
Department of Criminal Justice shall post on the department's | ||
Internet website the following information regarding each | ||
substance to be used in the execution: | ||
(1) the name of the substance; | ||
(2) the manufacturer of the substance; | ||
(3) the expiration date of the substance; | ||
(4) the results of any laboratory tests performed on | ||
the substance; | ||
(5) the quantity of the substance; and | ||
(6) any other information in the department's | ||
possession regarding the substance. | ||
(c) If the information described by Subsection (b) is not | ||
available for the department to post before the date required by | ||
Subsection (b), the department shall make the information available | ||
as soon as the substance is in the department's possession, but in | ||
no event later than the 14th day before the date the execution is | ||
scheduled to occur. | ||
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 September 1, 2015. |