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.