By Romo H.B. No. 2882 74R7725 CLG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an exception to the open meetings law for certain 1-3 deliberations of the board of directors of hospital districts. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 551, Government Code, is 1-6 amended to conform to Section 1, Chapter 329, Acts of the 73rd 1-7 Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, and amended by adding Section 1-8 551.085 to read as follows: 1-9 Sec. 551.085. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL, 1-10 MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, OR HOSPITAL DISTRICT. This chapter 1-11 does not require the board of directors of a municipal hospital, 1-12 municipal hospital authority, or hospital district created under 1-13 general or special law to conduct an open meeting to deliberate: 1-14 (1) pricing or financial planning information relating 1-15 to a bid or negotiation in which the hospital or hospital district 1-16 offers services or product lines as a contract service provider to 1-17 another person if disclosure of the information would give 1-18 advantage to competitors of the hospital or hospital district; or 1-19 (2) information relating to a proposed new service or 1-20 product line of the hospital or hospital district before the 1-21 hospital or hospital district publicly announces the service or 1-22 product line. 1-23 SECTION 2. (a) In addition to the new changes in law made 1-24 by this Act relating to an exception to the open meetings law for 2-1 certain deliberations of the board of directors of hospital 2-2 districts, this Act conforms certain provisions of the Government 2-3 Code to changes in the law made by Section 1, Chapter 329, Acts of 2-4 the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993. 2-5 (b) Chapter 329, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular 2-6 Session, 1993, is repealed. 2-7 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.