By Hightower                                    H.B. No. 1422

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                                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.