By: Craddick H.B. No. 1703
73R6421 DLF-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the contracting authority of the Midland County
1-3 Hospital District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 6, Chapter 112, Acts of the 65th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1977, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 6. The board of directors shall manage, control, and
1-8 administer the hospital system and all funds and resources of the
1-9 district, but operating, depreciation, or building fund reserves
1-10 may not be invested in any funds or securities other than those
1-11 specified in Articles 836 and 837, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas,
1-12 1925, as amended. The board is given full authority to establish
1-13 rules relating to seniority of employees of the district and may
1-14 establish or administer a retirement program or elect to
1-15 participate in any statewide retirement program in which the
1-16 district is eligible to participate. The district may give effect
1-17 to previous years of service for those employees who have been
1-18 continuously employed in the operation or management of the
1-19 hospital facilities acquired from Midland Memorial Foundation on
1-20 the creation of the district. The district, through its board of
1-21 directors, shall have the power and authority to sue and be sued
1-22 and to promulgate rules governing the operation of the hospital,
1-23 hospital system, its staff, and its employees. The board of
1-24 directors may appoint a qualified person as the administrator of
2-1 the hospital district and may in its discretion appoint assistants
2-2 to the administrator. The administrator and assistant
2-3 administrator, if any, serve at the will of the board and receive
2-4 compensation fixed by the board. The administrator shall on
2-5 assuming his duties execute a bond payable to the hospital district
2-6 in an amount set by the board of directors, not less than $10,000,
2-7 conditioned on performance of the duties required of him and
2-8 containing other conditions as the board may require. The
2-9 administrator shall supervise all the work and activities of the
2-10 district and shall have general direction of the affairs of the
2-11 district, subject to the limitations prescribed by the board. The
2-12 board of directors shall have authority to appoint and dismiss from
2-13 the staff such doctors as it deems necessary for the efficient
2-14 operation of the district and may provide for temporary appointment
2-15 to the staff if warranted by circumstances. The board may delegate
2-16 to the administrator the authority to employ or contract with
2-17 technicians, nurses, and other persons or employees of the district
2-18 as deemed advisable by the administrator. The board shall be
2-19 authorized to contract with any other political subdivision or
2-20 governmental agency whereby the district will provide investigatory
2-21 or other services as to the medical, hospital, or welfare needs of
2-22 the inhabitants of the district. The board <and> shall be
2-23 authorized to contract with any hospital or hospital authority,
2-24 hospital district, emergency services district, county, <or>
2-25 incorporated municipality, or other political subdivision of this
2-26 state that is located outside its boundaries for the
2-27 hospitalization and treatment of the sick, diseased, or injured
3-1 persons of any such entity <county or municipality> and shall have
3-2 the authority to contract with the state or its agencies and the
3-3 federal government or its agencies for the hospital treatment of
3-4 sick, diseased, or injured persons and for the training of doctors,
3-5 nurses, and other health care disciplines. The board of directors
3-6 may exercise all of the foregoing powers of this section unless a
3-7 management agreement is entered into with the board of directors,
3-8 in accordance with Section 7 hereof, by which either all or a part
3-9 of such powers shall be exercised pursuant to a management
3-10 agreement.
3-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
3-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-17 passage, and it is so enacted.