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.