By Hudson                                             H.B. No. 2271
       74R7460 LJR-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a bond for the construction of a swimming pool.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Before commencing work under a contract to build
    1-5  a swimming pool, the builder shall deliver to the person
    1-6  contracting to pay for the pool a bond executed by a corporate
    1-7  surety authorized to do business in the state in an amount equal to
    1-8  the contract price for the pool or in an amount equal to the
    1-9  highest contract price for any swimming pool ever constructed by
   1-10  the builder, whichever is greater.  The bond shall be payable to
   1-11  the person contracting to pay for the pool and shall be conditioned
   1-12  on the faithful construction of the swimming pool in accordance
   1-13  with the contractual plans and specifications.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-20  passage, and it is so enacted.