1-1 By: Hightower, Place, et al. H.B. No. 1422 1-2 (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) 1-3 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 1, 1997; 1-4 April 2, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-5 Criminal Justice; May 7, 1997, reported favorably by the following 1-6 vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 7, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to prohibiting employment discrimination against certain 1-10 employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for refusing 1-11 to take a polygraph examination. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by 1-14 adding Section 493.022 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 493.022. POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION. An employee of the 1-16 department who is the subject of a written complaint made by or 1-17 filed with the department may not be suspended, discharged, or 1-18 subjected to any other form of employment discrimination by the 1-19 department because the employee refuses to take a polygraph 1-20 examination. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-27 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-28 * * * * *