6 U.S.C. § 221 — Requirements with respect to administering polygraph examinations to law enforcement personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection

(a) In general: The Secretary of Homeland Security must ensure that: (1) by no later than 2 years after January 4, 2011, all applicants for law enforcement positions with U.S. Customs and Border Protection — except as subsection (b) allows — receive a polygraph examination before being hired for such a position; and (2) by no later than 180 days after January 4, 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has begun every periodic background reinvestigation that its policies, as they stood the day before January 4, 2011, require for its law enforcement personnel. (b) Waiver: The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection can waive the polygraph examination requirement in subsection (a)(1) for an applicant who: (1) is deemed suitable for employment; (2) currently holds an active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance; (3) has a current Single Scope Background Investigation; (4) received that clearance without any waivers; and (5) is a veteran, as defined in section 2108 of title 5.