By Duncan                                       S.B. No. 1623

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the power of the Lubbock County Hospital District to

 1-3     provide facilities and hospital-related equipment, supplies, and

 1-4     services to Lubbock County for the use of the medical examiner's

 1-5     office.

 1-6           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-7           SECTION 1.  Section 10, Chapter 484, Acts of the 60th

 1-8     Legislature, Regular Session, 1967, is amended to read as follows:

 1-9           Sec. 10.  CUMULATIVE POWERS.  The board of managers, with the

1-10     approval of the commissioners court, shall have the power:

1-11           (a)  To construct, condemn and purchase, purchase and

1-12     acquire, lease, add to, maintain, operate, develop and regulate,

1-13     sell, exchange and convey any and all lands, property, property

1-14     rights, equipment, hospital facilities and systems for the

1-15     maintenance of hospitals, buildings, structures, and any and all

1-16     other facilities and services the hospital district may require or

1-17     may have available to sell, lease or exchange;

1-18           (b)  To further effectuate such powers, the board of

1-19     managers, with the approval of the commissioners court, may

1-20     cooperate and contract with the United States government, the State

1-21     of Texas, any municipality or other hospital district, or any

1-22     department of those governing bodies, or with any privately owned

1-23     or operated hospital, corporate or otherwise, which privately owned

1-24     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 fair and reasonable compensation and on such

 2-6     other terms and for such length of time as may be deemed to further

 2-7     and assist the hospital district in performing its duty to provide

 2-8     medical and hospital care to needy inhabitants of the county[.];

 2-9           (c)  to provide to Lubbock County, at the hospital district's

2-10     expense, office space and hospital-related equipment,

2-11     hospital-related supplies, and hospital-related services for the

2-12     use of the county medical examiner's office.

2-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-19     passage, and it is so enacted.