1-1 By: Dunnam, Lengefeld, Cook H.B. No. 1459
1-2 (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)
1-3 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
1-4 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Human
1-5 Services; May 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-6 Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to facilities and services for the care of the elderly or
1-10 a person with a disability in certain municipal hospital
1-11 authorities.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Section 262.034(e), Health and Safety Code, is
1-14 amended to read as follows:
1-15 (e) This section applies only to an authority that owns or
1-16 operates a hospital licensed under Chapter 241 and that is located
1-17 in:
1-18 (1) a county with a population of 225,000 [35,000] or
1-19 less;
1-20 (2) those portions of extended municipalities that the
1-21 federal census bureau has determined to be rural; or
1-22 (3) an area that is not delineated as an urbanized
1-23 area by the federal census bureau.
1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-29 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-30 passage, and it is so enacted.
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