1-1 By: Patterson (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff) H.B. No. 2066 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997; 1-3 April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 24, 1997, reported favorably by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 24, 1997, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to the powers of the Hopkins County Hospital District. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Chapter 43, Acts of the 57th Legislature, 1st 1-12 Called Session, 1961, is amended by adding Section 6B to read as 1-13 follows: 1-14 Sec. 6B. (a) The district may become a member of a 1-15 nonprofit corporation or enter into an agreement with a nonprofit 1-16 corporation to serve the purposes of this Act. Under an agreement 1-17 with a nonprofit corporation, the district may require that: 1-18 (1) the nonprofit corporation grant the district the 1-19 power to appoint one or more members of the board of directors of 1-20 the nonprofit corporation; 1-21 (2) the nonprofit corporation obtain the consent of 1-22 the district before making changes in the corporation's articles of 1-23 incorporation or bylaws or before taking other action; and 1-24 (3) the district receive all or a portion of the net 1-25 assets of the nonprofit corporation on the corporation's 1-26 dissolution, merger, or consolidation. 1-27 (b) The hospital district is not liable for any debt, 1-28 obligation, or other liability of the nonprofit corporation. 1-29 (c) This section does not affect the district's authority to 1-30 make payments to or otherwise provide funds to the nonprofit 1-31 corporation. 1-32 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-38 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-39 * * * * *