73R4882 JRD-F
          By Oakley                                             H.B. No. 1105
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to prohibiting employment discrimination against certain
    1-3  peace officers for refusing to take a polygraph examination.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  (a)  In this Act, "peace officer" means a person
    1-6  who is elected, appointed, or employed by a governmental entity and
    1-7  who is a peace officer under Article 2.12, Code of Criminal
    1-8  Procedure, or other law.
    1-9        (b)  A peace officer may not be suspended, discharged, or
   1-10  subjected to any other form of employment discrimination because
   1-11  the person refuses to take a polygraph examination.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act does not apply to a peace officer:
   1-13              (1)  to whom Section 411.007, Government Code, applies;
   1-14  or
   1-15              (2)  who has been ordered to take a polygraph
   1-16  examination under Section 143.124, Local Government Code.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.