73R7210 DLF-F
          By West                                               H.B. No. 2795
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the Ector County Hospital District.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 5.15, Chapter 550, Acts of the 71st
    1-5  Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 5.15.  AUTHORITY TO SUE AND BE SUED; VENUE.  (a)  The
    1-7  board may sue and be sued on behalf of the district.
    1-8        (b)  An action against the board, the district, or the
    1-9  district's hospital system shall be brought in Ector County.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Section 7.04(b), Chapter 550, Acts of the 71st
   1-11  Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to read as follows:
   1-12        (b)  The bonds must be payable from and secured by a pledge
   1-13  of all or part of the revenues received by the district, other than
   1-14  ad valorem taxes <derived from the operation of the district's
   1-15  hospital system>.  The bonds may be additionally secured by a
   1-16  mortgage or deed of trust lien on all or part of district property.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  This Act does not affect the validity of the
   1-18  assumption or issuance of bonds or other obligations assumed or
   1-19  issued before the effective date of this Act.
   1-20        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-3  passage, and it is so enacted.