HLS 14RS-793 ENGROSSED
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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 328
BY REPRESENTATIVE LOPINTO
CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for confidentiality of information relating to the
execution of a death sentence
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 15:569(E), relative to execution of a death sentence; to provide with respect2
to the confidentiality of information involving the manufacturing and compounding3
of a lethal injection; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 15:569(E) is hereby enacted to read as follows:6
ยง569. Place for execution of death sentence; manner of execution7
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E. The name, address, qualifications, and other identifying information of9
any person or entity that manufactures, compounds, prescribes, dispenses, supplies,10
or administers the drugs or supplies utilized in an execution shall be confidential,11
shall not be subject to disclosure, and shall not be admissible as evidence or12
discoverable in any action of any kind in any court or before any tribunal, board,13
agency, or person. The same confidentiality and protection shall also apply to any14
person who participates in an execution or performs any ancillary function related15
to an execution and shall not include information contained in any department16
records, including electronic records, that would identify such persons.17 HLS 14RS-793 ENGROSSED
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Lopinto HB No. 328
Abstract: Provides for confidentiality of information related to te execution of a death
sentence.
Present law provides for the manner of execution of a death sentence.
Proposed law retains these provisions of present law.
Proposed law provides that the name, address, qualifications, and other identifying
information of any person or entity that manufactures, compounds, prescribes, dispenses,
supplies, or administers the drugs or supplies utilized in an execution shall be confidential,
shall not be subject to disclosure, and shall not be admissible as evidence or discoverable in
any action of any kind.
Proposed law provides that the same confidentiality applies to any person who participates
in an execution.
(Adds R.S. 15:569(E))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Administration of Criminal
Justice to the original bill.
1. Deleted all references to death by electrocution.
2. Added provisions for the confidentiality of the identity of persons supplying
drugs for a lethal injection and of persons participating in or performing an
execution.