By Tillery H.B. No. 1367
76R4728 AJA-D
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1-17 repealed.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.