By Dunnam H.B. No. 1459
76R1725 SKT-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to facilities and services for the care of the elderly or
1-3 a person with a disability in certain municipal hospital
1-4 authorities.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 262.034(e), Health and Safety Code, is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (e) This section applies only to an authority that owns or
1-9 operates a hospital licensed under Chapter 241 and that is located
1-10 in:
1-11 (1) a county with a population of 225,000 [35,000] or
1-12 less;
1-13 (2) those portions of extended municipalities that the
1-14 federal census bureau has determined to be rural; or
1-15 (3) an area that is not delineated as an urbanized
1-16 area by the federal census bureau.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.