By Wolens                                             H.B. No. 1655
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to interlocal cooperation contracts for health care and
    1-3  hospital services.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subdivision (3), Section 791.003, Government
    1-6  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7              (3)  "Governmental functions and services" means all or
    1-8  part of a function or service in any of the following areas:
    1-9                    (A)  police protection and detention services;
   1-10                    (B)  fire protection;
   1-11                    (C)  streets, roads, and drainage;
   1-12                    (D)  public health and welfare;
   1-13                    (E)  parks and recreation;
   1-14                    (F)  library and museum services;
   1-15                    (G)  records center services;
   1-16                    (H)  waste disposal;
   1-17                    (I)  planning;
   1-18                    (J)  engineering;
   1-19                    (K)  administrative functions;
   1-20                    (L)  public funds investment; <or>
   1-21                    (M)  other governmental functions in which the
   1-22  contracting parties are mutually interested; or
   1-23                    (N)  comprehensive health care and hospital
    2-1  services.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 791, Government Code, is
    2-3  amended by adding Section 791.030 to read as follows:
    2-4        Sec. 791.030.  HEALTH CARE AND HOSPITAL SERVICES.  A local
    2-5  government may contract with another local government authorized to
    2-6  provide health care and hospital services to provide such services
    2-7  for the officials, officers, and employees of the local government
    2-8  and their dependents.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.