By Maxey H.B. No. 2837
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a change in the use by the City of Austin of certain
1-3 real property currently designated for public use.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. The Legislature hereby finds that the City of
1-6 Austin would facilitate and improve the availability, accessibility
1-7 and cost of health care services to its residents if it could
1-8 either lease or transfer all or part of its hospital (including the
1-9 main hospital buildings and the professional office building), for
1-10 operation on a non-profit basis to another entity experienced in
1-11 providing health care services, which may be an entity currently
1-12 operating health care facilities located in the City of Austin.
1-13 SECTION 2. Section 2, of Acts, 67th Legislature, (1981)
1-14 R.S., Ch. 492, p. 2109, which changed the designation of "Hospital"
1-15 on the 1839 plat of the original townsite of the City of Austin on
1-16 file in the General Land Office to "Public Purpose", is amended to
1-17 read as follows:
1-18 The City of Austin is hereby <exclusively> empowered to use
1-19 such designated land as shown on such plat and as patented to the
1-20 City of Austin by patent dated July 15, 1994, for any public
1-21 purpose. The term "public purpose" shall include the lease or
1-22 operation of the property for health care purposes by a non-profit
1-23 organization as authorized by the City of Austin.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.