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1-14     Statutes), is repealed.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.

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