By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 488
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to a contractual lien for surveying or engineering
    1-2  services.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 53.021, Property Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-6        (e)  A lien created by Subsection (c) does not prevent a
    1-7  surveyor or engineer from acquiring, recording, and enforcing as
    1-8  provided by applicable law a contractual lien on real property to
    1-9  secure payment for surveying or engineering services relating to
   1-10  the real property.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.