By Cook                                               H.B. No. 1207
       74R3571 CLG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of a hospital district to contract with
    1-3  the Texas Department of Health for the provision of certain health
    1-4  care services.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 285, Health and Safety Code, is amended
    1-7  by adding Subchapter H to read as follows:
    1-8                       SUBCHAPTER H.  CONTRACTS
    1-9        Sec. 285.091.  HOSPITAL DISTRICT CONTRACTS.  A hospital
   1-10  district created under general or special law may contract with the
   1-11  Texas Department of Health for the provision of health care
   1-12  services and assistance, including preventive health care services,
   1-13  to eligible residents of the district.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-20  passage, and it is so enacted.