By Combs                                              H.B. No. 2620
       74R6784 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain agreements between contractors and
    1-3  subcontractors.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 53, Property Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 53.004 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 53.004.  CONTRACT TERMS PROHIBITED.  A provision of a
    1-8  contract or other agreement between a contractor and a
    1-9  subcontractor may not impair a subcontractor's right to a lien
   1-10  under this chapter.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.