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 Sections 143.124, 143.313, and 157.905, Local 1-29 Government Code, are repealed. 1-30 SECTION 3.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. 1-37 * * * * *