By Hirschi H.B. No. 2546 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the duty of non-profit charitable housing organizations 1-3 for the elderly to provide charity care. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 11, Subchapter B, Subsection 11.18(d) 1-6 (13), Tax Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (13) providing permanent housing and related social, 1-8 health care, and educational facilities for persons who are 62 1-9 years of age or older without regard to the residents' ability to 1-10 pay; provided that at least 50% of the persons receiving housing 1-11 are uninsured or underinsured and are accepted for housing with no 1-12 obligation or a discounted obligation to pay for the services 1-13 rendered. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act take effect September 1, 1993. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.