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.