1-1 By: Finnell (Senate Sponsor - Fraser) H.B. No. 2397 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997; 1-3 May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 1-4 and Human Services; May 15, 1997, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to certain agreements to provide health care services 1-9 under the Indigent Health Care and Treatment Act. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 61.025(e), Health and Safety Code, is 1-12 amended to read as follows: 1-13 (e) The agreement to transfer partial responsibility to a 1-14 county under this section must take effect on a September 1 that 1-15 occurs not later than two years after the date on which the county 1-16 and municipality agree to the transfer. A county and municipality 1-17 may not revoke or amend an agreement made under this section, 1-18 except that the county may revoke or amend the agreement if a 1-19 hospital district is created after the effective date of the 1-20 agreement and the boundaries of the district cover all or part of 1-21 the county. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-28 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-29 * * * * *