By Tillery H.B. No. 1197
75R4349 GJH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the refusal of deputy sheriffs in certain sheriffs'
1-3 departments to take polygraph examinations.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 157.905(a), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) This section applies only to a person appointed as a
1-8 deputy sheriff in a sheriff's department in a county with a
1-9 population of 50,000 [2.8 million] or more.
1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-11 applies only to a refusal to take a polygraph examination that
1-12 occurs on or after that date.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.