By Munoz H.B. No. 84 74R293 MLR-D 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. Chapter 614, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subchapter E to read as follows: 1-7 SUBCHAPTER E. POLYGRAPH EXAMINATIONS 1-8 Sec. 614.061. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "peace 1-9 officer" means a person who: 1-10 (1) is elected, appointed, or employed by a 1-11 governmental entity; and 1-12 (2) is a peace officer under Article 2.12, Code of 1-13 Criminal Procedure, or other law. 1-14 Sec. 614.062. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter 1-15 does not apply to a peace officer: 1-16 (1) to whom Section 411.007, Government Code, applies; 1-17 or 1-18 (2) who is required to take a polygraph examination 1-19 under Section 143.124, Local Government Code. 1-20 Sec. 614.063. POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION. A peace officer may 1-21 not be suspended, discharged, or subjected to any other form of 1-22 employment discrimination by the peace officer's employer because 1-23 the officer refuses to take a polygraph examination. 1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.