By Craddick H.B. No. 3166 74R8531 SRC-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to contracts between the Midland County Hospital District 1-3 and a medical school. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 112, Acts of the 65th Legislature, 1-6 Regular Session, 1977, is amended by adding Section 6A to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 Sec. 6A. The board may contract with a public medical 1-9 school, including the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 1-10 for the improvement and equipping of hospital facilities as 1-11 necessary to support a surgical residency program. Notwithstanding 1-12 other law, the medical school may enter into such an agreement and 1-13 expend appropriated funds for that purpose. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-21 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 1-22 Amend H.B. No. 3166 as follows: 1-23 (1) On page 1, line 8, between "with a" and "public medical 1-24 school", insert "state agency or". 2-1 (2) On page 1, line 12, between "the" and "medical school", 2-2 insert "state agency or". 2-3 74R8658 SRC-D Chisum