PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Bill · S

S. 1854 (100th)

A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to include and regulate a polygraph as a medical device under such Act, and for other purposes.

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

5 November 1987

Last action

Status

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

Sponsors

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

21 April 2025

Summary

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to regulate a polygraph as a medical device under such Act. Amends the Civil Rights Act to make it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to sanction polygraph testing procedures which include questions for an employee or an applicant for employment concerning race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to sanction polygraph testing procedures which include questions for an employee or applicant for employment concerning membership in or opinions concerning a labor organization.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.