1-1 By: Lindsay S.B. No. 1396
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 19, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 25, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0; April 25, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Lindsay
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 1396 as follows:
1-8 (1) On page 1, Section 551.085, Government Code, line 20,
1-9 delete "Board of Directors" and replace with "Governing Board"
1-10 (2) On page 1, Section 551.085(2), Government Code, lines 33
1-11 and 34, insert the deleted language "before the hospital publicly
1-12 announces the service or product line."
1-13 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-14 AN ACT
1-15 relating to an exception to the open meetings law for certain
1-16 deliberations of the board of a hospital district.
1-17 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-18 SECTION 1. Section 551.085, Government Code, is amended to
1-19 read as follows:
1-20 Sec. 551.085. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL,
1-21 HOSPITAL DISTRICT, OR MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITY. This chapter
1-22 does not require the board of directors of a municipal hospital,
1-23 [or of a] municipal hospital authority, or hospital district
1-24 created under general or special law to conduct an open meeting to
1-25 deliberate:
1-26 (1) pricing or financial planning information relating
1-27 to a bid or negotiation for the arrangement or provision of [in
1-28 which the hospital offers] services or product lines [as a contract
1-29 service provider] to another person if disclosure of the
1-30 information would give advantage to competitors of the hospital or
1-31 hospital district; or
1-32 (2) information relating to a proposed new service or
1-33 product line of the hospital or hospital district [before the
1-34 hospital publicly announces the service or product line].
1-35 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-36 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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