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.

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