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 Sections 53.059(e) and (i), Property Code, are 1-6 repealed. 1-7 SECTION 2.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.