73R9366 PB-F By Leedom S.B. No. 702 Substitute the following for S.B. No. 702: By Siebert C.S.S.B. No. 702 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application of the Texas Health Maintenance 1-3 Organization Act to certain hospital districts. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2(l), Texas Health Maintenance 1-6 Organization Act (Article 20A.02, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code), 1-7 is amended to read as follows: 1-8 (l) "Person" means any natural or artificial person, 1-9 including, but not limited to, individuals, partnerships, 1-10 associations, organizations, trusts, or corporations. The term 1-11 includes a hospital district located in a county with a population 1-12 of more than 1,800,000 but less than 2,000,000. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.