By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 609
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to clarification of municipal authority regarding
    1-2  abandoned swimming pools.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 214.101, Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Section 214.101.  AUTHORITY REGARDING SWIMMING POOL
    1-7  ENCLOSURES.  (a)  A municipality may by ordinance establish minimum
    1-8  standards for swimming pool fences and may adopt other ordinances
    1-9  as necessary to carry out this subchapter.  Standards in a
   1-10  municipal ordinance for poolyard enclosures governed by Chapter 757
   1-11  of the Health and Safety Code shall be the same standards as those
   1-12  required or permitted by that code.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect
   1-14  September 1, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY CLAUSE.  The importance of this
   1-16  legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both
   1-17  houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
   1-18  the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
   1-21  terms, and it is so enacted.