By: Patterson S.B. No. 711 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to prohibiting discrimination against certain peace 1-2 officers for refusal to take a polygraph examination. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. (a) Except as provided by Section 2 of this Act, 1-5 in this Act, "peace officer" means a person elected, appointed, or 1-6 employed by a governmental entity as a peace officer under Article 1-7 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, or other law. 1-8 (b) A peace officer may not be suspended, discharged, or 1-9 subjected to any other form of employment discrimination because 1-10 the person refuses to take a polygraph examination. 1-11 SECTION 2. This Act does not apply to a peace officer 1-12 commissioned by the Texas Department of Public Safety. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.