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.