By Wentworth S.B. No. 488 74R4751 MJW-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a contractual lien for surveying 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 from acquiring, perfecting, and enforcing a contractual 1-8 lien on real property to secure payment for surveying services 1-9 relating to the real property. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-11 SECTION 3. 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.