By Turner of Harris H.B. No. 2309 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a prohibition on subjecting state employees to 1-3 involuntary polygraph examinations. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. It shall be the public policy of the State of 1-6 Texas that employees of the state shall not have their jobs or work 1-7 performance ratings jeopardized by involuntary polygraph 1-8 examinations or other tests which do not stand the test of 1-9 scientific accuracy. 1-10 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-11 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.