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.

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             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.

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                                                 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.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor