HB 1717 2003
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to a public records exemption for
3	information identifying an executioner and specified
4	persons involved in an execution; amending s. 922.10,
5	F.S.; removing the public records exemption for an
6	executioner’s identifying information; repealing s.
7	922.106, F.S., which provides an exemption from public
8	records requirements for information that would identify
9	any person prescribing, preparing, compounding,
10	dispensing, or administering a lethal injection pursuant
11	to a death sentence; amending s. 945.10, F.S.; revising
12	language with respect to the public records exemption for
13	the identity of an executioner and persons prescribing,
14	preparing, compounding, dispensing, or administering a
15	lethal injection; providing an effective date.
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17	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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19	Section 1. Section 922.10, Florida Statutes, is amended to
20	read:
21	922.10 Execution of death sentence; executioner.--A death
22	sentence shall be executed by electrocution or lethal injection
23	in accordance with s. 922.105. The warden of the state prison
24	shall designate the executioner. Information which, if released,
25	would identify the executioner is confidential and exempt from
26	the provisions of s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
27	Constitution.The warrant authorizing the execution shall be
28	read to the convicted person immediately before execution.
29	Section 2. Section 922.106, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
30	Section 3. Subsection (1) of section 945.10, Florida
31	Statutes, is amended to read:
32	945.10 Confidential information.--
33	(1) Except as otherwise provided by law or in this
34	section, the following records and information held byofthe
35	Department of Corrections are confidential and exempt from the
36	provisions of s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
37	Constitution:
38	(a) Mental health, medical, or substance abuse records of
39	an inmate or an offender.
40	(b) Preplea, pretrial intervention, and presentence or
41	postsentence investigative records, except as provided in s.
42	960.001(1)(g).
43	(c) Information regarding a person in the federal witness
44	protection program.
45	(d) Parole Commission records which are confidential or
46	exempt from public disclosure by law.
47	(e) Information which if released would jeopardize a
48	person's safety.
49	(f) Information concerning a victim's statement and
50	identity.
51	(g) Information which identifiesThe identity ofan
52	executioner, or anyaperson prescribing, preparing,
53	compounding, dispensing, or administering a lethal injection.
54	(h) Records that are otherwise confidential or exempt from
55	public disclosure by law.
56	Section 4. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.