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Amend HB 1589 as follows:
(1) On page 2, strike lines 7-10 and substitute the following:
(b) Before commissioning an applicant as a peace officer or
employing an applicant for a police communications operator
position, the department shall require the applicant to submit to
the administration of a polygraph examination in accordance with
rules adopted under Subsection (e).
(2) On page 3, strike lines 2-5 and substitute the
following:
(e) The department shall adopt reasonable rules to specify
the point in the hiring process at which the department shall
require a polygraph examination to be administered under this
section and the manner in which the examination shall be
administered. Rules relating to the administration of a polygraph
examination shall be adopted in accordance with the guidelines
published by the American Polygraph Association or the American
Association of Police Polygraphists.