By Hirschi, Finnell H.B. No. 3587 75R13008 CLG-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the acquisition or lease of hospital facilities by 1-3 certain county-municipality hospital boards. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 265.037, Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) A board existing in a county with a population of more 1-8 than 100,000 and a municipality with a population of more than 1-9 75,000, as an exercise of its powers as a public agency and body 1-10 politic, may purchase, construct, receive, lease, or otherwise 1-11 acquire hospital facilities, including the sublease of one or more 1-12 hospital facilities, regardless of whether the action might be 1-13 considered anticompetitive under the antitrust laws of the United 1-14 States or this state. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.