1-1     By:  Duncan                                           S.B. No. 1623

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;

 1-4     April 18, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 18, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1623                By:  Moncrief

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the power of the Lubbock County Hospital District to

1-11     provide facilities and hospital-related equipment, supplies, and

1-12     services to Lubbock County for the use of the medical examiner's

1-13     office.

1-14           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-15           SECTION 1.  Section 10, Chapter 484, Acts of the 60th

1-16     Legislature, Regular Session, 1967, is amended to read as follows:

1-17           Sec. 10.  CUMULATIVE POWERS.  The board of managers, with the

1-18     approval of the commissioners court, shall have the power:

1-19           (a)  To construct, condemn and purchase, purchase and

1-20     acquire, lease, add to, maintain, operate, develop and regulate,

1-21     sell, exchange and convey any and all lands, property, property

1-22     rights, equipment, hospital facilities and systems for the

1-23     maintenance of hospitals, buildings, structures, and any and all

1-24     other facilities and services the hospital district may require or

1-25     may have available to sell, lease or exchange;

1-26           (b)  To further effectuate such powers, the board of

1-27     managers, with the approval of the commissioners court, may

1-28     cooperate and contract with the United States government, the State

1-29     of Texas, any municipality or other hospital district, or any

1-30     department of those governing bodies, or with any privately owned

1-31     or operated hospital, corporate or otherwise, which privately owned

1-32     or operated hospital is situated in the hospital district;

1-33     provided, in the opinion of the board of managers and of the

1-34     commissioners court, such a contract is deemed expedient and

1-35     advantageous to the hospital district under existing circumstances,

1-36     and be for such fair and reasonable compensation and on such other

1-37     terms and for such length of time as may be deemed to further and

1-38     assist the hospital district in performing its duty to provide

1-39     medical and hospital care to needy inhabitants of the county;

1-40           (c)  To provide office space, equipment, supplies, and

1-41     services for the use of the county medical examiner's office for

1-42     medical, hospital, and other non-criminal-investigation-related

1-43     purposes.

1-44           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-45     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-46     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-47     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-48     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-49     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-50     passage, and it is so enacted.

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