1-1 By: Ellis, Zaffirini S.B. No. 788
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 1997; March 3, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
1-4 March 13, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
1-5 Nays 0; March 13, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the filing of annual reports of community benefits
1-9 plans by nonprofit hospitals.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 311.046, Health and
1-12 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) A nonprofit hospital shall file the annual report of the
1-14 community benefits plan with the Bureau of State Health Data and
1-15 Policy Analysis at the department. The report shall be filed no
1-16 later than April 30 of each year [120 days after the end of the
1-17 hospital's fiscal year; provided, however, that the first report
1-18 shall be filed no later than 120 days after the end of the
1-19 hospital's fiscal year ending during 1994].
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-21 applies only to reports filed for fiscal years ending on or after
1-22 January 1, 1998. The filing date of a report for a fiscal year
1-23 ending before January 1, 1998, is governed by the law as it existed
1-24 immediately before September 1, 1997, and that law is continued in
1-25 effect for that purpose.
1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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