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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.