By:  Danburg                                           H.B. No. 418
       73R307 GWK-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a prohibition on the requirement of a polygraph
    1-3  examination of a complainant as a condition to charging defendants
    1-4  accused of certain criminal offenses.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 15, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-7  amended by adding Article 15.051 to read as follows:
    1-8        Art. 15.051.  POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION OF COMPLAINANT
    1-9  PROHIBITED.  A peace officer or attorney representing the state may
   1-10  not request or require a polygraph examination of a person who
   1-11  charges or seeks to charge in a complaint the commission of an
   1-12  offense under Section 21.11, 22.011, 22.021, or 25.02,  Penal Code.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.