1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the powers of the Hopkins County Hospital District. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 43, Acts of the 57th Legislature, 1st 1-5 Called Session, 1961, is amended by adding Section 6B to read as 1-6 follows: 1-7 Sec. 6B. (a) The district may become a member of a 1-8 nonprofit corporation or enter into an agreement with a nonprofit 1-9 corporation to serve the purposes of this Act. Under an agreement 1-10 with a nonprofit corporation, the district may require that: 1-11 (1) the nonprofit corporation grant the district the 1-12 power to appoint one or more members of the board of directors of 1-13 the nonprofit corporation; 1-14 (2) the nonprofit corporation obtain the consent of 1-15 the district before making changes in the corporation's articles of 1-16 incorporation or bylaws or before taking other action; and 1-17 (3) the district receive all or a portion of the net 1-18 assets of the nonprofit corporation on the corporation's 1-19 dissolution, merger, or consolidation. 1-20 (b) The hospital district is not liable for any debt, 1-21 obligation, or other liability of the nonprofit corporation. 1-22 (c) This section does not affect the district's authority to 1-23 make payments to or otherwise provide funds to the nonprofit 1-24 corporation. 2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2066 was passed by the House on April 11, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2066 was passed by the Senate on May 5, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor