By:  Leedom                                            S.B. No. 702
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the application of the Texas Health Maintenance
    1-2  Organization Act to hospital districts.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (l), Section 2, Texas Health
    1-5  Maintenance Organization Act (Article 20A.02, Vernon's Texas
    1-6  Insurance Code), is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (l)  "Person" means any natural or artificial person,
    1-8  including, but not limited to, individuals, partnerships,
    1-9  associations, organizations, trusts, hospital districts, or
   1-10  corporations.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-17  passage, and it is so enacted.