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.