S.B. No. 781 AN ACT 1-1 relating to prohibiting employment discrimination against deputy 1-2 sheriffs in certain counties for refusing to take a polygraph 1-3 examination. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 157, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 157.905 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 157.905. POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION OF DEPUTY SHERIFF IN 1-8 CERTAIN SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENTS. (a) This section applies only to a 1-9 person appointed as a deputy sheriff in a sheriff's department in a 1-10 county with a population of 2.8 million or more. 1-11 (b) Except as provided herein, a deputy sheriff may not be 1-12 suspended, discharged, or subjected to any other form of employment 1-13 discrimination because the deputy sheriff refuses to take a 1-14 polygraph examination. Discipline may be given to a deputy sheriff 1-15 who refuses to take a polygraph examination if such deputy sheriff 1-16 is the subject of a complaint and the complainant against such 1-17 deputy sheriff has, in the course of the department's investigation 1-18 of the complaint, previously taken and successfully passed a 1-19 polygraph examination. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.