1-1     By Patterson                                          H.B. No. 2066

 1-2     75R8224 SAW-D                           

 1-3                                   AN ACT

 1-4     relating to the powers of the Hopkins County Hospital District.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Chapter 43, Acts of the 57th Legislature, 1st

 1-7     Called Session, 1961, is amended by adding Section 6B to read as

 1-8     follows:

 1-9           Sec. 6B.  (a)  The district may become a member of a

1-10     nonprofit corporation or enter into an agreement with a nonprofit

1-11     corporation to serve the purposes of this Act.  Under an agreement

1-12     with a nonprofit corporation, the district may require that:

1-13                 (1)  the nonprofit corporation grant the district the

1-14     power to appoint one or more members of the board of directors of

1-15     the nonprofit corporation;

1-16                 (2)  the nonprofit corporation obtain the consent of

1-17     the district before making changes in the corporation's articles of

1-18     incorporation or bylaws or before taking other action; and

1-19                 (3)  the district receive all or a portion of the net

1-20     assets of the nonprofit corporation on the corporation's

1-21     dissolution, merger, or consolidation.

1-22           (b)  The hospital district is not liable for any debt,

1-23     obligation, or other liability of the nonprofit corporation.

1-24           (c)  This section does not affect the district's authority to

1-25     make payments to or otherwise provide funds to the nonprofit

1-26     corporation.

1-27           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-32     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-33     passage, and it is so enacted.