3 U.S.C. § 414 — Rights and protections under the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988

(a) Polygraph Practices Prohibited
A covered "employing office^*" cannot require a covered employee^* to take a lie detector test in any situation where a private employer would be banned from requiring one under paragraphs (1), (2), or (3) of section 3 of the Employee^* Polygraph Protection Act of 1988. The waiver rules in section 6(d) of that Act — which let an employee agree to a test in limited situations — also apply to covered employees here.

(b) Remedy
If an employing office breaks the rule in (a), the covered employee can get the same kind of damages that section 6(c)(1) of the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 allows.

(c) Regulations To Implement Section
(1) In general
The President, or someone the President designates, must issue regulations to put this section into practice.
(2) Agency regulations
These regulations must match the substantive regulations the Secretary of Labor already issued to carry out the parts of the Employee Polygraph Protection Act that (a) and (b) refer to. The President or designee can depart from matching them only if there is good cause, that cause is stated together with the new regulation, and the change would work better to carry out the rights and protections under this section.

(d) Effective Date
Subsections (a) and (b) start applying on whichever comes first: the date regulations issued under (c) take effect, or October 1, 1998.