By Munoz H.B. No. 1791 74R4960 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the prohibition of certain conditions as a requirement 1-3 for employment by a political subdivision. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 180.004 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 180.004. PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN CONDITIONS AS 1-8 REQUIREMENT FOR EMPLOYMENT BY MUNICIPALITIES, COUNTIES, OR OTHER 1-9 POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS. (a) A municipality, county, or other 1-10 political subdivision of this state may not require as a condition 1-11 of employment that a person: 1-12 (1) waive the person's constitutional rights; or 1-13 (2) release the municipality, county, or political 1-14 subdivision from liability for ordering the person to take a 1-15 polygraph examination. 1-16 (b) An ordinance, a rule, a resolution, an order, or another 1-17 statement of policy of a municipality, county, or other political 1-18 subdivision of this state that violates Subsection (a) is void. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.