By:  Yarbrough                                         H.B. No. 963
       73R3512 JRD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to prohibiting employment discrimination against deputy
    1-3  sheriffs in certain counties for refusing to take a polygraph
    1-4  examination.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 157, Local Government Code,
    1-7  is amended by adding Section 157.905 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 157.905.  POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION OF DEPUTY SHERIFF IN
    1-9  CERTAIN SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENTS.  (a)  This section applies only to a
   1-10  person appointed as a deputy sheriff in a sheriff's department in a
   1-11  county with a population of 2.8 million or more.
   1-12        (b)  A deputy sheriff may not be suspended, discharged, or
   1-13  subjected to any other form of employment discrimination because
   1-14  the deputy refuses to take a polygraph examination.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.