Bill Text: TX HB1853 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the availability of certain information regarding persons who provide materials used in the execution of a convict.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-15 - Filed [HB1853 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1853-Introduced.html

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89R4685 GP-F
By: Moody H.B. No. 1853

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the availability of certain information regarding
persons who provide materials 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 that is confidential under Article
43.14(b) [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.
(b) The exception to disclosure provided by Subsection (a)
does not apply to identifying information about a [; and
[(2) any] person or 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 by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to
read as follows:
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the [The] name,
address, and other identifying information of [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, is
confidential and excepted from required disclosure under Section
552.021, Government Code.
(c) The name, address, and other identifying information of
[; and
[(2)] any person or entity that manufactures,
transports, tests, procures, compounds, prescribes, dispenses, or
provides a substance or supplies used in an execution is public
information, is not confidential, and is not excepted from required
disclosure under Section 552.021, Government Code.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a request for information that is received by a governmental body or
officer for public information on or after the effective date of
this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.