S.B. No. 609 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.