1-1 By: Craddick (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 1703
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 5, 1993;
1-3 April 5, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 22, 1993, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 22, 1993, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Armbrister x
1-10 Leedom x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Madla x
1-14 Moncrief x
1-15 Patterson x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 Whitmire x
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to the contracting authority of the Midland County
1-23 Hospital District.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 6, Chapter 112, Acts of the 65th
1-26 Legislature, Regular Session, 1977, is amended to read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 6. The board of directors shall manage, control, and
1-28 administer the hospital system and all funds and resources of the
1-29 district, but operating, depreciation, or building fund reserves
1-30 may not be invested in any funds or securities other than those
1-31 specified in Articles 836 and 837, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas,
1-32 1925, as amended. The board is given full authority to establish
1-33 rules relating to seniority of employees of the district and may
1-34 establish or administer a retirement program or elect to
1-35 participate in any statewide retirement program in which the
1-36 district is eligible to participate. The district may give effect
1-37 to previous years of service for those employees who have been
1-38 continuously employed in the operation or management of the
1-39 hospital facilities acquired from Midland Memorial Foundation on
1-40 the creation of the district. The district, through its board of
1-41 directors, shall have the power and authority to sue and be sued
1-42 and to promulgate rules governing the operation of the hospital,
1-43 hospital system, its staff, and its employees. The board of
1-44 directors may appoint a qualified person as the administrator of
1-45 the hospital district and may in its discretion appoint assistants
1-46 to the administrator. The administrator and assistant
1-47 administrator, if any, serve at the will of the board and receive
1-48 compensation fixed by the board. The administrator shall on
1-49 assuming his duties execute a bond payable to the hospital district
1-50 in an amount set by the board of directors, not less than $10,000,
1-51 conditioned on performance of the duties required of him and
1-52 containing other conditions as the board may require. The
1-53 administrator shall supervise all the work and activities of the
1-54 district and shall have general direction of the affairs of the
1-55 district, subject to the limitations prescribed by the board. The
1-56 board of directors shall have authority to appoint and dismiss from
1-57 the staff such doctors as it deems necessary for the efficient
1-58 operation of the district and may provide for temporary appointment
1-59 to the staff if warranted by circumstances. The board may delegate
1-60 to the administrator the authority to employ or contract with
1-61 technicians, nurses, and other persons or employees of the district
1-62 as deemed advisable by the administrator. The board shall be
1-63 authorized to contract with any other political subdivision or
1-64 governmental agency whereby the district will provide investigatory
1-65 or other services as to the medical, hospital, or welfare needs of
1-66 the inhabitants of the district. The board <and> shall be
1-67 authorized to contract with any hospital or hospital authority,
1-68 hospital district, emergency services district, county, <or>
2-1 incorporated municipality, or other political subdivision of this
2-2 state that is located outside its boundaries for the
2-3 hospitalization and treatment of the sick, diseased, or injured
2-4 persons of any such entity <county or municipality> and shall have
2-5 the authority to contract with the state or its agencies and the
2-6 federal government or its agencies for the hospital treatment of
2-7 sick, diseased, or injured persons and for the training of doctors,
2-8 nurses, and other health care disciplines. The board of directors
2-9 may exercise all of the foregoing powers of this section unless a
2-10 management agreement is entered into with the board of directors,
2-11 in accordance with Section 7 hereof, by which either all or a part
2-12 of such powers shall be exercised pursuant to a management
2-13 agreement.
2-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-21 * * * * *
2-22 Austin,
2-23 Texas
2-24 April 22, 1993
2-25 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-26 President of the Senate
2-27 Sir:
2-28 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
2-29 referred H.B. No. 1703, have had the same under consideration, and
2-30 I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
2-31 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
2-32 Armbrister,
2-33 Chairman
2-34 * * * * *
2-35 WITNESSES
2-36 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1703.