1-1 By: Glaze (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro) H.B. No. 81
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 1993;
1-3 March 31, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
1-4 and Human Services; April 28, 1993, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 28, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Zaffirini x
1-9 Ellis x
1-10 Madla
1-11 Moncrief x
1-12 Nelson x
1-13 Patterson x
1-14 Shelley x
1-15 Truan x
1-16 Wentworth x
1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-18 AN ACT
1-19 relating to the title to certain property exempt from the statewide
1-20 personal property accounting system or in the possession of certain
1-21 entities providing emergency medical services.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 12, Health and Safety Code,
1-24 is amended by adding Section 12.054 to read as follows:
1-25 Sec. 12.054. DISPOSITION OF CERTAIN DEPARTMENT PROPERTY.
1-26 (a) This section applies only to property that is surplus or
1-27 salvage property under Article 9, State Purchasing and General
1-28 Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and
1-29 that is:
1-30 (1) exempt under Section 12.053 from the statewide
1-31 personal property accounting system; or
1-32 (2) lawfully in the possession of an emergency medical
1-33 services provider or governmental entity as those terms are defined
1-34 by Section 773.003.
1-35 (b) The department may negotiate directly with an emergency
1-36 medical services provider or governmental entity to transfer title
1-37 to property covered by this section for which the department
1-38 determines that it holds title. The department and the provider or
1-39 governmental entity may mutually agree upon the value of the
1-40 property and shall take any action incident to the transaction that
1-41 is required by federal law.
1-42 (c) The department shall initiate necessary procedures under
1-43 Article 9, State Purchasing and General Services Act (Article 601b,
1-44 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), to dispose of surplus or salvage
1-45 property for which the department does not transfer title under
1-46 this section.
1-47 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-48 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-49 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-50 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-51 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-52 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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1-54 Austin,
1-55 Texas
1-56 April 28, 1993
1-57 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-58 President of the Senate
1-59 Sir:
1-60 We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was
1-61 referred H.B. No. 81, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-62 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-63 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-64 Zaffirini,
1-65 Chair
1-66 * * * * *
1-67 WITNESSES
1-68 FOR AGAINST ON
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2-2 Name: Gene Weatherall x
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2-6 Name: George Russell x
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2-10 Name: Faye Thomas x
2-11 Representing: Texas Ambulance Asso
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