By: Whitmire S.B. No. 781 73R3512 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to prohibiting employment discrimination against deputy 1-3 sheriffs in certain counties for refusing to take a polygraph 1-4 examination. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 157, Local Government Code, 1-7 is amended by adding Section 157.905 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 157.905. POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION OF DEPUTY SHERIFF IN 1-9 CERTAIN SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENTS. (a) This section applies only to a 1-10 person appointed as a deputy sheriff in a sheriff's department in a 1-11 county with a population of 2.8 million or more. 1-12 (b) A deputy sheriff may not be suspended, discharged, or 1-13 subjected to any other form of employment discrimination because 1-14 the deputy refuses to take a polygraph examination. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.