By: Marquez H.B. No. 3762
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to creating a transparent and deliberative process by
which execution procedures are determined.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 43.14 of the Texas Code of Criminal
Procedure is amended to read as follows:
Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art 43.14 Execution of Convict. Whenever the
sentence of death is pronounced against a convict, the sentence
shall be executed at any time after the hour of 6 pm. 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 such execution
procedure is to be determined at an open meeting by the Texas Board
of Criminal Justice in accordance with chapter 2001 of the
Government Code. The implementation of such procedures shall be
supervised by the director of the correctional institutions
division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The director
shall notify the inmate and his attorney, in writing, of the lethal
substance or substances to be used, and the source for and
expiration date of same, no less than 30 days before the scheduled
execution.
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, 2011.