By: Montford S.B. No. 1472 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the authority of the Lubbock County Hospital District 1-2 to render primary care, emergency services, preventive medicine 1-3 services, and other health related services. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3, Chapter 484, Acts of the 60th 1-6 Legislature, 1967 (Article 4494q, Vernon's Annotated Civil 1-7 Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 3. PURPOSE OF DISTRICT. The district authorized to be 1-9 created by this Act is charged with the responsibility of 1-10 establishing a hospital or a hospital system, including medical 1-11 facilities or other health facilities, within its boundaries to 1-12 furnish hospital and medical care to the residents of the district. 1-13 After this district is created as provided in Section 4 of this 1-14 Act, no other municipality or political subdivision shall have the 1-15 power to levy taxes or issue bonds or other obligations for 1-16 hospital purposes or for providing medical care within the 1-17 boundaries of the district. This district shall provide all 1-18 necessary medical and hospital care for the needy inhabitants of 1-19 the district. The district may render primary care, emergency 1-20 services, preventive medicine services, and other health related 1-21 services outside the district. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.