1-1           By:  Patterson                                   S.B. No. 527

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 10, 1997; February 13, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; March 3, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable

 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 2;

 1-6     March 3, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 527                 By:  Galloway

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to prohibiting employment discrimination against certain

1-11     peace officers for refusing to take a polygraph examination.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Chapter 614, Government Code, is amended by

1-14     adding Subchapter E to read as follows:

1-15                    SUBCHAPTER E.  POLYGRAPH EXAMINATIONS

1-16           Sec. 614.061.  DEFINITION.  In this subchapter, "peace

1-17     officer" means a person who:

1-18                 (1)  is elected, appointed, or employed by a

1-19     governmental entity; and

1-20                 (2)  is a peace officer under Article 2.12, Code of

1-21     Criminal Procedure, or other law.

1-22           Sec. 614.062.  APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER.  This subchapter

1-23     does not apply to a peace officer to whom Section 411.007 applies.

1-24           Sec. 614.063.  POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION.  A peace officer may

1-25     not be suspended, discharged, or subjected to any other form of

1-26     employment discrimination by the peace officer's employer because

1-27     the officer refuses to take a polygraph examination.

1-28           SECTION 2.  Sections 143.124, 143.313, and 157.905, Local

1-29     Government Code, are repealed.

1-30           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-31     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-32     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-33     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-34     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-35     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-36     passage, and it is so enacted.

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