By:  Wilson                                            H.B. No. 503
       73R2837 DLF-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to purchases and expenditures made by or for the Harris
    1-3  County Hospital District.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 281.049, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  Notwithstanding Subsections (a)-(d), the board of the
    1-8  Harris County Hospital District has the sole authority to prescribe
    1-9  the method of making purchases and expenditures by and for the
   1-10  district.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-17  passage, and it is so enacted.