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.