By Finnell H.B. No. 2397 75R6172 CLG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain agreements to provide health care services 1-3 under the Indigent Health Care and Treatment Act. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 61.025(e), Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (e) The agreement to transfer partial responsibility to a 1-8 county under this section must take effect on a September 1 that 1-9 occurs not later than two years after the date on which the county 1-10 and municipality agree to the transfer. A county and municipality 1-11 may not revoke or amend an agreement made under this section, 1-12 except that the county may revoke or amend the agreement if a 1-13 hospital district is created after the effective date of the 1-14 agreement and the boundaries of the district cover all or part of 1-15 the county. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.