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By Kamel H.B. No. 2805
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to emergency ambulance service provided by counties.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection 774.003(b), Health and Safety Code is
1-5 amended, to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 774.003. Emergency Ambulance Services Provided by
1-7 Counties.
1-8 (b) In providing for the services authorized by Subsection
1-9 (a), a commissioners court may enter into exclusive agreements with
1-10 any municipality, hospital district, sheriff's office, fire
1-11 department, private ambulance service or other agency or entity
1-12 that the commissioners court finds to be suitably organized to
1-13 provide efficient emergency ambulance service in the county. The
1-14 governing body of a municipality [or hospital district] in which
1-15 emergency ambulance service is to be rendered must approve an
1-16 agreement made with the commissioners court to provide that service
1-17 in the municipality [or hospital district].
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1997.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.