By Hightower H.B. No. 1422 75R6092 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to prohibiting employment discrimination against certain 1-3 correctional officers employed by the Texas Department of Criminal 1-4 Justice for refusing 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. A correctional officer 1-9 employed by the department who is the subject of a written 1-10 complaint made by or filed with the department may not be 1-11 suspended, discharged, or subjected to any other form of employment 1-12 discrimination by the department because the officer refuses to 1-13 take a polygraph 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. 2-1 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 2-2 Amend H.B. 1422 on page 1, lines 8 and 9, by striking "A 2-3 correctional officer employed by", and substituting "An employee 2-4 of" and on line 12, strike "officer" and substitute "employee". 2-5 Alexander