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.