1-1     By:  Hirschi, Finnell (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)      H.B. No. 3587

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1997;

 1-3     May 13, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the acquisition or lease of hospital facilities by

1-10     certain county-municipality hospital boards.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 265.037, Health and Safety Code, is

1-13     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

1-14           (d)  A board existing in a county with a population of more

1-15     than 100,000 and a municipality with a population of more than

1-16     75,000, as an exercise of its powers as a public agency and body

1-17     politic, may purchase, construct, receive, lease, or otherwise

1-18     acquire hospital facilities, including the sublease of one or more

1-19     hospital facilities, regardless of whether the action might be

1-20     considered anticompetitive under the antitrust laws of the United

1-21     States or this state.

1-22           SECTION 2.  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

1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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