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.