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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