By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 609
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to municipal regulation of pool yard enclosures.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 214.101, Local Government
    1-4  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (a)  A municipality may by ordinance establish minimum
    1-6  standards for swimming pool fences and enclosures and may adopt
    1-7  other ordinances as necessary to carry out this subchapter.  A
    1-8  municipal ordinance containing standards for a pool yard enclosure
    1-9  as defined by Chapter 757, Health and Safety Code, as added by
   1-10  Section 2, Chapter 517, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, 1993, must
   1-11  contain the same standards for that enclosure as are required or
   1-12  permitted by that chapter of the Health and Safety Code.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.