By: Ratliff S.B. No. 344
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the disposition of surplus tax money of the Morris
1-2 County Hospital District on dissolution of the district.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 9.09, Chapter 719, Acts of the 71st
1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended by amending
1-6 Subsections (d) and (e) and adding Subsection (g) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (d) When all lawfully incurred and outstanding debts and
1-9 obligations of the district are paid, the board shall transfer all
1-10 surplus tax money to Morris County for use by the county in
1-11 providing health care services and assistance to indigent residents
1-12 of the county under Subchapter B, Chapter 61, Health and Safety
1-13 Code (Indigent Health Care and Treatment Act) <return the pro rata
1-14 share of all unused tax money to each person who paid the tax
1-15 imposed under this section. A person may request that the person's
1-16 share of surplus tax money be credited to the person's county
1-17 taxes. If a person requests the credit, the board shall transmit
1-18 the funds to the county tax assessor-collector>.
1-19 (e) If, after payment of all lawfully incurred and
1-20 outstanding debts and obligations of the district and after
1-21 transferring <return of> any surplus <unused> tax money under
1-22 Subsection (d) of this section, the district has any remaining
1-23 assets, those assets shall be transferred to Morris County or
1-24 another governmental entity in the district to be used for the
2-1 benefit of persons in the district.
2-2 (g) After the commissioners court of the county enters an
2-3 order affirming the dissolution of the district, Morris County, on
2-4 behalf of the board, may collect any delinquent taxes imposed by
2-5 the board under this section. Morris County shall use the money
2-6 the county collects under this subsection to provide health care
2-7 services and assistance to indigent residents of the county under
2-8 Subchapter B, Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code (Indigent Health
2-9 Care and Treatment Act).
2-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.