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.