1-1 By: Ratliff S.B. No. 344
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 27, 1995; January 30, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; February 8, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; February 8, 1995, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Wentworth
1-8 Amend S.B. No. 344 as follows:
1-9 (1) In SECTION 1 of the bill (page 1, lines 31-33), strike
1-10 the recital of the law being amended and substitute the following:
1-11 "Section 9.09, Chapter 719, Acts of the 71st Legislature,
1-12 Regular Session, 1989, is amended by amending Subsections (d) and
1-13 (e) and adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:".
1-14 (2) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in Section 9.09, Chapter 719,
1-15 Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989 (page 1,
1-16 between lines 51 and 52), add a new Subsection (g) to read as
1-17 follows:
1-18 (g) After the commissioners court of the county enters an
1-19 order affirming the dissolution of the district, Morris County, on
1-20 behalf of the board, may collect any delinquent taxes imposed by
1-21 the board under this section. Morris County shall use the money
1-22 the county collects under this subsection to provide health care
1-23 services and assistance to indigent residents of the county under
1-24 Subchapter B, Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code (Indigent Health
1-25 Care and Treatment Act).
1-26 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-27 AN ACT
1-28 relating to the disposition of surplus tax money of the Morris
1-29 County Hospital District on dissolution of the district.
1-30 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-31 SECTION 1. Subsections (d) and (e), Section 9.09, Chapter
1-32 719, Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, are
1-33 amended to read as follows:
1-34 (d) When all lawfully incurred and outstanding debts and
1-35 obligations of the district are paid, the board shall transfer all
1-36 surplus tax money to Morris County for use by the county in
1-37 providing health care services and assistance to indigent residents
1-38 of the county under Subchapter B, Chapter 61, Health and Safety
1-39 Code (Indigent Health Care and Treatment Act) <return the pro rata
1-40 share of all unused tax money to each person who paid the tax
1-41 imposed under this section. A person may request that the person's
1-42 share of surplus tax money be credited to the person's county
1-43 taxes. If a person requests the credit, the board shall transmit
1-44 the funds to the county tax assessor-collector>.
1-45 (e) If, after payment of all lawfully incurred and
1-46 outstanding debts and obligations of the district and after
1-47 transferring <return of> any surplus <unused> tax money under
1-48 Subsection (d) of this section, the district has any remaining
1-49 assets, those assets shall be transferred to Morris County or
1-50 another governmental entity in the district to be used for the
1-51 benefit of persons in the district.
1-52 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-53 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-54 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-55 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-56 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-57 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-58 passage, and it is so enacted.
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