By West H.B. No. 2795
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to venue of suits against the Ector County Hospital
1-3 District and its hospital system, contracting for the use, purchase
1-4 or other acquisition of personal property and issuing obligations
1-5 of the Ector County Hospital District, payment of revenue bonds and
1-6 validating and confirming acts of the district.
1-7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-8 SECTION 1. Section 5.15, Chapter 550, Acts of the 71st
1-9 Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to read as follows:
1-10 SECTION 5.15. AUTHORITY TO SUE AND BE SUED. The board may
1-11 sue and be sued on behalf of the district. An action against the
1-12 board or the district or the district's hospital system shall be
1-13 brought in Ector County, Texas.
1-14 SECTION 2. Section 6.09(a), Chapter 550, Acts of the 71st
1-15 Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to read as follows:
1-16 (a) The district may contract for the use, purchase or other
1-17 acquisition of personal property in accordance with Subchapter A,
1-18 Chapter 271, Local Government Code, as the same may be amended from
1-19 time to time, and may issue obligations that are permitted
1-20 thereunder. Except as provided by this subsection, and by Sections
1-21 5.07(a), 7.01, 7.04 and 7.05 of this Act, the district may not
1-22 incur a debt payable from revenues of the district other than the
1-23 revenues on hand or to be on hand in the current and immediately
2-1 following fiscal year of the district.
2-2 SECTION 3. Section 7.04(b), Chapter 550, Acts of the 71st
2-3 Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to read as follows:
2-4 (b) The bonds must be payable from and secured by a pledge
2-5 of all or part of <the> revenues <derived from the operation of the
2-6 district's hospital system> received by the district. The bonds
2-7 may be additionally secured by a mortgage or deed of trust lien on
2-8 all or part of the district property.
2-9 SECTION 4. Actions of the district before the effective date
2-10 of this Act, with regard to the assumption or issuance of bonds and
2-11 other obligations and the expenditure of funds in payment of
2-12 contracts, bonds and other obligations are validated and confirmed.
2-13 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended
2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.