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.