By: Duncan S.B. No. 1623 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the power of the Lubbock County Hospital District to 1-2 provide facilities and hospital-related equipment, supplies, and 1-3 services to Lubbock County for the use of the medical examiner's 1-4 office. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 10, Chapter 484, Acts of the 60th 1-7 Legislature, Regular Session, 1967, is amended to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 10. CUMULATIVE POWERS. The board of managers, with the 1-9 approval of the commissioners court, shall have the power: 1-10 (a) To construct, condemn and purchase, purchase and 1-11 acquire, lease, add to, maintain, operate, develop and regulate, 1-12 sell, exchange and convey any and all lands, property, property 1-13 rights, equipment, hospital facilities and systems for the 1-14 maintenance of hospitals, buildings, structures, and any and all 1-15 other facilities and services the hospital district may require or 1-16 may have available to sell, lease or exchange; 1-17 (b) To further effectuate such powers, the board of 1-18 managers, with the approval of the commissioners court, may 1-19 cooperate and contract with the United States government, the State 1-20 of Texas, any municipality or other hospital district, or any 1-21 department of those governing bodies, or with any privately owned 1-22 or operated hospital, corporate or otherwise, which privately owned 1-23 or operated hospital is situated in the hospital district; 2-1 provided, in the opinion of the board of managers and of the 2-2 commissioners court, such a contract is deemed expedient and 2-3 advantageous to the hospital district under existing circumstances, 2-4 and be for such fair and reasonable compensation and on such other 2-5 terms and for such length of time as may be deemed to further and 2-6 assist the hospital district in performing its duty to provide 2-7 medical and hospital care to needy inhabitants of the county; 2-8 (c) To provide office space, equipment, supplies, and 2-9 services for the use of the county medical examiner's office for 2-10 medical, hospital, and other non-criminal-investigation-related 2-11 purposes. 2-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.