By King of Parker H.B. No. 3175 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3175: By Turner of Coleman C.S.H.B. No. 3175 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the use by licensed peace officers of computerized 1-3 voice stress analyzers in official criminal investigations. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2, Polygraph Examiners Act (Article 1-6 4413(29cc), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 Sec. 2. PURPOSE; APPLICABILITY. (a) It is the purpose of 1-9 this Act to regulate all persons who purport to be able to detect 1-10 deception or to verify truth of statements through the use of 1-11 instrumentation (as lie detectors, polygraphs, deceptographs, 1-12 and/or similar or related devices and instruments without regard to 1-13 the nomenclature applied thereto) and this Act shall be liberally 1-14 construed to regulate all such persons and instruments. No person 1-15 who purports to be able to detect deception or to verify truth of 1-16 statements through instrumentation shall be held exempt from the 1-17 provisions of this Act because of the terminology which he may use 1-18 to refer to himself, to his instrument, or to his services. 1-19 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this section, this Act 1-20 does not apply to the use by a licensed peace officer who is a 1-21 certified voice stress analyzer examiner of a computerized voice 1-22 stress analyzer in an official criminal examination. 1-23 SECTION 2. Chapter 15, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-24 amended by adding Article 15.052 to read as follows: 2-1 Art. 15.052. VICTIM'S CONSENT REQUIRED FOR USE OF 2-2 COMPUTERIZED VOICE STRESS ANALYZER. A peace officer may not use a 2-3 computerized voice stress analyzer to interview a victim of a crime 2-4 being investigated without the victim's written consent. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.