By Wolens                                             H.B. No. 2763
       74R5228 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to persons entitled to a lien on a homestead for
    1-3  furnishing material or performing labor.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 53.059(e) and (i), Property Code, are
    1-6  repealed.
    1-7        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.  The
    1-8  change in law made by this Act applies only to a person who
    1-9  contracts to furnish material or perform labor on or after the
   1-10  effective date of this Act.  A person who contracts to furnish
   1-11  material or perform labor before the effective date of this Act is
   1-12  governed by the law in effect when the person entered the contract,
   1-13  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  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.