1-1  By:  Montford                                         S.B. No. 1472
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed May 3, 1993; May 4, 1993, read first
    1-3  time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
    1-4  May 11, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
    1-5  Nays 0; May 11, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Zaffirini          x                               
    1-9        Ellis                                          x   
   1-10        Madla              x                               
   1-11        Moncrief           x                               
   1-12        Nelson             x                               
   1-13        Patterson          x                               
   1-14        Shelley            x                               
   1-15        Truan              x                               
   1-16        Wentworth          x                               
   1-17                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-18                                AN ACT
   1-19  relating to the authority of the Lubbock County Hospital District
   1-20  to render primary care, emergency services, preventive medicine
   1-21  services, and other health-related services.
   1-22        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-23        SECTION 1.  Section 3, Chapter 484, Acts of the 60th
   1-24  Legislature, 1967, is amended to read as follows:
   1-25        Sec. 3.  PURPOSE OF DISTRICT.  The district authorized to be
   1-26  created by this Act is charged with the responsibility of
   1-27  establishing a hospital or a hospital system, including medical
   1-28  facilities or other health facilities, within its boundaries to
   1-29  furnish hospital and medical care to the residents of the district.
   1-30  After this district is created as provided in Section 4 of this
   1-31  Act, no other municipality or political subdivision shall have the
   1-32  power to levy taxes or issue bonds or other obligations for
   1-33  hospital purposes or for providing medical care within the
   1-34  boundaries of the district.  This district shall provide all
   1-35  necessary medical and hospital care for the needy inhabitants of
   1-36  the district.  The district may render primary care, emergency
   1-37  services, preventive medicine services, and other health-related
   1-38  services outside the district.
   1-39        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-40        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-41  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-42  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-43  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-44  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-46                                                         Austin,
   1-47  Texas
   1-48                                                         May 11, 1993
   1-49  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-50  President of the Senate
   1-51  Sir:
   1-52  We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was
   1-53  referred S.B. No. 1472, have had the same under consideration, and
   1-54  I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
   1-55  recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
   1-56                                                         Zaffirini,
   1-57  Chair
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   1-59                               WITNESSES
   1-60  No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 1472.