ENROLLED HB 1717 2003 Legislature
   
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 Section 922.106, Florida Statutes, is repealed.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.