By: Lindsay S.B. No. 1396
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to an exception to the open meetings law for certain
1-2 deliberations of the board of a hospital district.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 551.085, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 551.085. GOVERNING BOARD [OF DIRECTORS] OF MUNICIPAL
1-7 HOSPITAL, HOSPITAL DISTRICT, OR MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITY. This
1-8 chapter does not require the governing board [of directors] of a
1-9 municipal hospital, [or of a] municipal hospital authority, or
1-10 hospital district created under general or special law to conduct
1-11 an open meeting to deliberate:
1-12 (1) pricing or financial planning information relating
1-13 to a bid or negotiation for the arrangement or provision of [in
1-14 which the hospital offers] services or product lines [as a contract
1-15 service provider] to another person if disclosure of the
1-16 information would give advantage to competitors of the hospital or
1-17 hospital district; or
1-18 (2) information relating to a proposed new service or
1-19 product line of the hospital or hospital district before the
1-20 hospital publicly announces the service or product line.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.