By Tillery H.B. No. 1480
75R6274 GJH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to circumstances under which certain firefighters and
1-3 police officers may be required to take a polygraph examination.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 143.124(a), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A fire fighter or police officer employed by the
1-8 municipality may not be required to submit to a polygraph
1-9 examination as part of an internal investigation regarding the
1-10 conduct of the fire fighter or police officer unless[:]
1-11 [(1)] the complainant submits to and passes a
1-12 polygraph examination and, if applicable, the department has
1-13 complied with Subsection (c) [; or]
1-14 [(2) the fire fighter or police officer is ordered to
1-15 take an examination under Subsection (f)].
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 143.124(f), Local Government Code, is
1-17 repealed.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.