By Tillery                                            H.B. No. 1367
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to circumstances under which certain firefighters may be
 1-3     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 employed by the municipality may not be
 1-8     required to submit to a polygraph examination as part of an
 1-9     internal investigation regarding the conduct of the fire fighter
1-10     unless[:]
1-11                 [(1)]  the complainant submits to and passes a
1-12     polygraph examination and, if applicable, the fire department has
1-13     complied with Subsection (c)[; or]
1-14                 [(2)  the fire fighter is ordered to take an
1-15     examination under Subsection (f)].
1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 143.124(f), Local Government Code, is
1-17     repealed.
1-18           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.