By Chisum H.B. No. 3456 75R9239 CLG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the Hansford County Hospital District. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. The Hansford County Hospital District: 1-5 (1) shall operate, maintain, manage, and administer 1-6 ancillary health care facilities; 1-7 (2) may certify and declare an unopposed candidate for 1-8 election of director as a director of the district; 1-9 (3) may invest district assets in funds and securities 1-10 as prescribed by Chapter 2256, Government Code; 1-11 (4) may purchase and maintain liability insurance for, 1-12 or agree to defend or indemnify the board of directors and district 1-13 employees for, liability incurred in performing the person's duties 1-14 for the district; 1-15 (5) may issue, sell, and deliver certain obligations 1-16 and execute certain credit agreements for the district; 1-17 (6) may enter into construction contracts of $10,000 1-18 or less without submitting the contract for bids; 1-19 (7) may borrow money to pay the district's operating 1-20 expenses; and 1-21 (8) may spend district money to recruit and employ 1-22 physicians and other health care professionals. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.