By Maxey H.B. No. 871
74R3532 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to securing a hospital lien.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 55.005(a), Property Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) To secure the lien, a hospital must file written notice
1-7 of the lien with the county clerk of the county in which the
1-8 hospital services were provided <injury occurred>. The notice must
1-9 be filed before money is paid to an entitled person because of the
1-10 injury.
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.