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.
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