Sec. 1703.003. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Commission" means the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation.
(1-a) "Committee" means the Polygraph Advisory Committee.
(2) "Department" means the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
(3) "Instrument" means a device used to test a subject to detect deception or verify the truth of a statement including by recording visually, permanently, and simultaneously a subject's cardiovascular and respiratory patterns. The term includes a lie detector, polygraph, deceptograph, or any other similar or related device used to detect deception or verify the truth of a statement.
(4) "Polygraph examiner" means a person licensed under this chapter to use an instrument to detect deception or verify the truth of a statement.
(5) "Polygraph examiner internship" means a course of study of polygraph examinations and of the administration of polygraph examinations by a trainee under the personal supervision and control of a polygraph examiner as prescribed by the department at the beginning of the internship.
(6) "Trainee" means a person who holds a polygraph examiner internship license under this chapter.
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 213 (S.B. 1005), Sec. 1, eff. May 27, 2009.
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 544 (S.B. 562), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
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