By Zaffirini                                           S.B. No. 222
       74R1918 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring or requesting a complainant to take a
    1-3  polygraph examination as a condition of charging a defendant
    1-4  accused of certain criminal offenses.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 15, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-7  amended by adding Article 15.051 to read as follows:
    1-8        Art. 15.051.  POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION OF COMPLAINANT
    1-9  PROHIBITED.  A peace officer or attorney representing the state may
   1-10  not require a polygraph examination of, or request the taking of a
   1-11  polygraph examination by, a person who charges or seeks to charge
   1-12  in a complaint the commission of an offense under Section 21.11,
   1-13  22.011, 22.021, or 25.02, Penal Code.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  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.