By Hightower, Place, et al.                           H.B. No. 1422

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to prohibiting employment discrimination against certain

 1-3     employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for refusing

 1-4     to take a polygraph examination.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by

 1-7     adding Section 493.022 to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 493.022.  POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION.  An employee of the

 1-9     department who is the subject of a written complaint made by or

1-10     filed with the department may not be suspended, discharged, or

1-11     subjected to any other form of employment discrimination by the

1-12     department because the employee refuses to take a polygraph

1-13     examination.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.