1-1 By: Leedom S.B. No. 702
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1993; March 9, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 1, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 1, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Armbrister x
1-9 Leedom x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Madla x
1-13 Moncrief x
1-14 Patterson x
1-15 Rosson x
1-16 Shapiro x
1-17 Wentworth x
1-18 Whitmire x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the application of the Texas Health Maintenance
1-22 Organization Act to hospital districts.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Subsection (l), Section 2, Texas Health
1-25 Maintenance Organization Act (Article 20A.02, Vernon's Texas
1-26 Insurance Code), is amended to read as follows:
1-27 (l) "Person" means any natural or artificial person,
1-28 including, but not limited to, individuals, partnerships,
1-29 associations, organizations, trusts, hospital districts, or
1-30 corporations.
1-31 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-36 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-37 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-39 Austin,
1-40 Texas
1-41 April 1, 1993
1-42 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-43 President of the Senate
1-44 Sir:
1-45 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-46 referred S.B. No. 702, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-47 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-48 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-49 Armbrister,
1-50 Chairman
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1-52 WITNESSES
1-53 FOR AGAINST ON
1-54 ___________________________________________________________________
1-55 FOR AGAINST ON
1-56 ___________________________________________________________________
1-57 Name: Janie McMahan x
1-58 Representing: Texas Hospital Assn.
1-59 City: Austin
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1-61 Name: Harry W. Wallingford x
1-62 Representing: Tx Business Group on Health
1-63 City: Austin
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1-65 Name: Tim Philpot x
1-66 Representing: Tarrant Co. Hospital
1-67 District
1-68 City: Fort Worth
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2-2 Name: King Hillier x
2-3 Representing: Harris Co. Hospital District
2-4 City: Houston
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2-6 Name: Woody Pgue x
2-7 Representing: Texas Dept. Insurance
2-8 City: Buda
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2-10 Name: Thomas L. Cox, Jr. x
2-11 Representing: Dallas Co. Hospital District
2-12 City: Dallas
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