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. 1-27 * * * * *