1-1 By: Cook (Senate Sponsor - Sibley) H.B. No. 1207 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 27, 1995; 1-3 March 29, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 12, 1995, reported favorably by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 12, 1995, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to the authority of a hospital district to contract with 1-10 the Texas Department of Health for the provision of certain health 1-11 care services. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Chapter 285, Health and Safety Code, is amended 1-14 by adding Subchapter H to read as follows: 1-15 SUBCHAPTER H. CONTRACTS 1-16 Sec. 285.091. HOSPITAL DISTRICT CONTRACTS. A hospital 1-17 district created under general or special law may contract with the 1-18 Texas Department of Health for the provision of health care 1-19 services and assistance, including preventive health care services, 1-20 to eligible residents of the district. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-27 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-28 * * * * *