By Chisum H.B. No. 3457 75R9240 CLG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the Hutchinson County Hospital District. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. The Hutchinson County Hospital District: 1-5 (1) shall operate, maintain, manage, and administer 1-6 ancillary health care facilities; 1-7 (2) may enter into a contract or joint ownership 1-8 agreement with a public or private entity for: 1-9 (A) district management or operating services; 1-10 or 1-11 (B) ownership of certain real or personal 1-12 property; 1-13 (3) may enter into a contract with certain 1-14 governmental entities and private or charitable organizations for 1-15 the care, treatment, or welfare needs of certain persons in the 1-16 jurisdiction of those governmental entities or organizations; and 1-17 (4) may invest district assets in certain investment 1-18 vehicles and funds. 1-19 SECTION 2. The Hutchinson County Hospital District is 1-20 governed by a board of seven directors, four of whom are elected 1-21 and three of whom are appointed. 1-22 SECTION 3. 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 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.