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.