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.