Bill Text: CT SB01028 | 2011 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Requiring The Licensure Of Polygraph Examiners.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-04 - Public Hearing 03/08 [SB01028 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2011-SB01028-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 1028
January Session, 2011		LCO No. 3590
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Referred to Committee on General Law
Introduced by:
(GL )

AN ACT REQUIRING THE LICENSURE OF POLYGRAPH EXAMINERS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2011) (a) No person shall administer a polygraph examination in this state on and after July 1, 2012, unless he or she has obtained a polygraph examiner license issued by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection. Said commissioner shall grant licenses to persons who meet the qualifications specified in the regulations adopted pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.

(b) On or before July 1, 2012, the Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 of the general statutes, to establish the qualifications necessary to obtain a license as a polygraph examiner. Such regulations shall specify that: (1) No employee of the federal government who administers polygraph examinations in the course of his or her employment with the federal government shall be required to obtain such a license, (2) no licensed polygraph examiner shall ask questions pertaining to sexual behavior, sexual orientation, or political or religious beliefs during the course of administering a polygraph examination unless such questions are material to the investigation, and (3) no licensed polygraph examiner shall administer a polygraph examination unless such licensed examiner uses a polygraph instrument which records permanently and simultaneously the subject's cardiovascular, respiratory and galvanic skin conductivity patterns.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2011	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To require the licensure of polygraph examiners.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]