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.