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. 1-51 * * * * *