By King of Parker H.B. No. 3175 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing licensed peace officers to utilize computer 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, Art. 4413(29cc) of the Polygraph 1-6 Examiners Act is amended to read as follows: 1-7 It is the purpose of this Act to regulate all persons who 1-8 purport to be able to detect deception or to verify truth of 1-9 statements through the use of instrumentation (as lie detectors, 1-10 polygraphs, deceptographs, and/or similar or related devices and 1-11 instruments without regard to the nomenclature applied thereto) and 1-12 this Act shall be liberally constructed to regulate all such 1-13 persons and instruments except licensed peace officers who are 1-14 certified voice stress analyzer examiners utilizing a computerized 1-15 voice stress analyzer in an official criminal investigation. No 1-16 person who purports to be able to detect deception or to verify 1-17 truth of statements through instrumentation shall be held exempt 1-18 from the provisions of this Act because of the terminology which he 1-19 may use to refer to himself, to his instrument, or to his services. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.