1-1 By: Smithee (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 3061 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 1995; 1-3 May 2, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 10, 1995, reported favorably by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 10, 1995, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to the authority of the Swisher Memorial Hospital District 1-10 to issue anticipation notes and certificates of obligation. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Chapter 16, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular 1-13 Session, 1965, is amended by adding Section 7A to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 7A. ANTICIPATION NOTES AND CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION. 1-15 The Board of Directors of the Hospital District may issue: 1-16 (1) anticipation notes under Article 717w, Revised 1-17 Statutes; and 1-18 (2) certificates of obligation under Subchapter C, 1-19 Chapter 271, Local Government Code. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-26 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-27 * * * * *