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    2-6  Session, 1993, is repealed.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.