By Ratliff S.B. No. 344
74R2793 CLG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the disposition of surplus tax money of the Morris
1-3 County Hospital District on dissolution of the district.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 9.09(d) and (e), Chapter 719, Acts of
1-6 the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, are amended 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 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.