1-1 By: Turner of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay) H.B. No. 2328
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 16, 1997;
1-3 May 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to an exception to the open meetings law for certain
1-9 deliberations of the board of a hospital district.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 551.085, Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 551.085. GOVERNING BOARD [OF DIRECTORS] OF MUNICIPAL
1-14 HOSPITAL, HOSPITAL DISTRICT, OR MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITY. This
1-15 chapter does not require the governing board [of directors] of a
1-16 municipal hospital, [or of a] municipal hospital authority, or
1-17 hospital district created under general or special law to conduct
1-18 an open meeting to deliberate:
1-19 (1) pricing or financial planning information relating
1-20 to a bid or negotiation for the arrangement or provision of [in
1-21 which the hospital offers] services or product lines [as a contract
1-22 service provider] to another person if disclosure of the
1-23 information would give advantage to competitors of the hospital or
1-24 hospital district; or
1-25 (2) information relating to a proposed new service or
1-26 product line of the hospital or hospital district before the
1-27 hospital publicly announces the service or product line.
1-28 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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