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.