By: Ellis, Zaffirini S.B. No. 788
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the filing of annual reports of community benefits
1-2 plans by nonprofit hospitals.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 311.046, Health and
1-5 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) A nonprofit hospital shall file the annual report of the
1-7 community benefits plan with the Bureau of State Health Data and
1-8 Policy Analysis at the department. The report shall be filed no
1-9 later than April 30 of each year [120 days after the end of the
1-10 hospital's fiscal year; provided, however, that the first report
1-11 shall be filed no later than 120 days after the end of the
1-12 hospital's fiscal year ending during 1994].
1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-14 applies only to reports filed for fiscal years ending on or after
1-15 January 1, 1998. The filing date of a report for a fiscal year
1-16 ending before January 1, 1998, is governed by the law as it existed
1-17 immediately before September 1, 1997, and that law is continued in
1-18 effect for that purpose.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.