By Maxey H.B. No. 417
75R2453 SKB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the filing of annual reports of community benefits
1-3 plans by nonprofit hospitals.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 311.046(b), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) A nonprofit hospital shall file the annual report of the
1-8 community benefits plan with the Bureau of State Health Data and
1-9 Policy Analysis at the department. The report shall be filed no
1-10 later than April 30 of each year [120 days after the end of the
1-11 hospital's fiscal year; provided, however, that the first report
1-12 shall be filed no later than 120 days after the end of the
1-13 hospital's fiscal year ending during 1994].
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-15 applies only to reports filed for fiscal years ending on or after
1-16 January 1, 1998. The filing date of a report for a fiscal year
1-17 ending before January 1, 1998, is governed by the law as it existed
1-18 immediately before September 1, 1997, and that law is continued in
1-19 effect for that purpose.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.