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.

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