S.B. No. 993
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the use by the City of Austin of certain real property
    1-2  designated for a public purpose.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the City of Austin
    1-5  would facilitate and improve the availability, accessibility, and
    1-6  cost of health care services to its residents if it could lease or
    1-7  transfer all or part of the city's hospital, including the main
    1-8  hospital buildings or the professional office building, for
    1-9  operation on a nonprofit basis by another entity experienced in
   1-10  providing health care services, including an entity currently
   1-11  operating a health care facility located in the City of Austin.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Section 2, Chapter 492, Acts of the 67th
   1-13  Legislature, Regular Session, 1981, is amended to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 2.  The city of Austin is hereby exclusively empowered
   1-15  to use such designated land as shown on such plat and as patented
   1-16  to the City of Austin on July 15, 1994, for any public purpose.  In
   1-17  this Act, "public purpose" includes the lease or operation of the
   1-18  property for a health care purpose by a nonprofit organization as
   1-19  authorized by the City of Austin regardless of whether the lease or
   1-20  operation might be considered to be anticompetitive under the
   1-21  antitrust laws of the United States or this state, provided further
   1-22  that charity care shall continue to be provided in the City of
   1-23  Austin at a level at least as much as the dollar amount of charity
   1-24  care and an equivalent level of services of charity care as was
    2-1  provided by the City of Austin in fiscal year 1994.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  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.