1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 488 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 7, 1995; February 8, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; 1-4 February 21, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 21, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Wentworth 1-7 Amend S.B. No. 488 as follows: 1-8 On page 1, line 7 (committee printing page 1, line 24), 1-9 delete "perfecting, and enforcing" and substitute "recording, and 1-10 enforcing as provided by applicable law". 1-11 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 2 By: Wentworth 1-12 Amend S.B. No. 488 as follows: 1-13 (1) On page 1, line 7 (committee printing page 1, line 24) 1-14 insert "or engineer" between "surveyor" and "from"; and 1-15 (2) On page 1, line 8 (committee printing page 1, line 25) 1-16 insert "or engineering" between "surveying" and "services". 1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-18 AN ACT 1-19 relating to a contractual lien for surveying services. 1-20 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-21 SECTION 1. Section 53.021, Property Code, is amended by 1-22 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-23 (e) A lien created by Subsection (c) does not prevent a 1-24 surveyor from acquiring, perfecting, and enforcing a contractual 1-25 lien on real property to secure payment for surveying services 1-26 relating to the real property. 1-27 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-33 * * * * *