1-1 By: Zaffirini, Moncrief S.B. No. 403 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 30, 1997; February 5, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human 1-4 Services; March 19, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 19, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to funding of the Medicaid disproportionate share program 1-9 through an assessment imposed against certain hospitals and 1-10 hospital districts. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 1st 1-13 Called Session, 1991 (Article 4494q-2, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-14 Statutes), is repealed. 1-15 SECTION 2.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, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-22 * * * * *