By: Barrientos S.B. No. 851 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to an exception to the open meetings law for certain 1-2 deliberations of the board of directors of a municipal hospital or 1-3 a municipal hospital authority. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2, Chapter 271, Acts of the 60th 1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1967 (Article 6252-17, Vernon's Texas 1-7 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (s) to read as 1-8 follows: 1-9 (s) This Act does not require the board of directors of a 1-10 municipal hospital or the board of directors of a municipal 1-11 hospital authority to conduct an open meeting to deliberate: 1-12 (1) pricing or financial planning information relating 1-13 to a bid or negotiation in which the hospital is offering its 1-14 services or product lines as a contract service provider to another 1-15 party if disclosure of the information would give advantage to 1-16 competitors of the hospital; or 1-17 (2) information relating to a proposed new service or 1-18 product line of the hospital before the hospital publicly announces 1-19 the service or product line. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.