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.