S.B. No. 701
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to interlocal cooperation contracts for health care and
    1-2  hospital services.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subdivision (3), Section 791.003, Government
    1-5  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6              (3)  "Governmental functions and services" means all or
    1-7  part of a function or service in any of the following areas:
    1-8                    (A)  police protection and detention services;
    1-9                    (B)  fire protection;
   1-10                    (C)  streets, roads, and drainage;
   1-11                    (D)  public health and welfare;
   1-12                    (E)  parks and recreation;
   1-13                    (F)  library and museum services;
   1-14                    (G)  records center services;
   1-15                    (H)  waste disposal;
   1-16                    (I)  planning;
   1-17                    (J)  engineering;
   1-18                    (K)  administrative functions;
   1-19                    (L)  public funds investment;
   1-20                    (M)  comprehensive health care and hospital
   1-21  services; or
   1-22                    (N) <(M)>  other governmental functions in which
   1-23  the contracting parties are mutually interested.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 791, Government Code, is
    2-2  amended by adding Section 791.030 to read as follows:
    2-3        Sec. 791.030.  HEALTH CARE AND HOSPITAL SERVICES.  A local
    2-4  government may contract with another local government authorized to
    2-5  provide health care and hospital services to provide those services
    2-6  for the local government's officers and employees and their
    2-7  dependents.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-9        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.