1-1  By:  Barrientos, Wentworth                             S.B. No. 993
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1995; March 9, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; April 12, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable
    1-5  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0;
    1-6  April 12, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 993                By:  Patterson
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to a change in the use by the City of Austin of certain
   1-11  real property currently designated for a public purpose.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  The legislature hereby finds that the City of
   1-14  Austin would facilitate and improve the availability,
   1-15  accessibility, and cost of health care services to its residents if
   1-16  it could either lease or transfer all or part of its hospital,
   1-17  including the main hospital buildings and the professional office
   1-18  building, for operation on a nonprofit basis to another entity
   1-19  experienced in providing health care services, which may be an
   1-20  entity currently operating health care facilities located in the
   1-21  City of Austin.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Section 2, Chapter 492, Acts of the 67th
   1-23  Legislature, Regular Session, 1981, is amended to read as follows:
   1-24        Sec. 2.  The city of Austin is hereby <exclusively> empowered
   1-25  to use such designated land as shown on such plat and as patented
   1-26  to the city of Austin by patent dated July 15, 1994, for any public
   1-27  purpose.  The term "public purpose" shall include the lease or
   1-28  operation of the property for health care purposes by a nonprofit
   1-29  organization as authorized by the city of Austin regardless of
   1-30  whether such lease or operation might be considered to be
   1-31  anticompetitive under the antitrust laws of the United States or
   1-32  the State of Texas.
   1-33        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-34  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-35  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-36  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-37  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-38  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-39  passage, and it is so enacted.
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