By Leedom S.B. No. 701
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 701:
By Turner of Harris C.S.S.B. No. 701
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to interlocal cooperation contracts for health care and
1-3 hospital services.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 791.003(3), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (3) "Governmental functions and services" means all or
1-8 part of a function or service in any of the following areas:
1-9 (A) police protection and detention services;
1-10 (B) fire protection;
1-11 (C) streets, roads, and drainage;
1-12 (D) public health and welfare;
1-13 (E) parks and recreation;
1-14 (F) library and museum services;
1-15 (G) records center services;
1-16 (H) waste disposal;
1-17 (I) planning;
1-18 (J) engineering;
1-19 (K) administrative functions;
1-20 (L) public funds investment;
1-21 (M) comprehensive health care and hospital
1-22 services; or
1-23 (N) <(M)> other governmental functions in which
1-24 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.