1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the operation of the Nixon Hospital District of 1-3 Gonzales and Wilson Counties, Texas, and Gonzales Healthcare 1-4 Systems. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 3, Chapter 644, Acts of the 59th 1-7 Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, is amended to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 3. (a) The District authorized to be created by this 1-9 Act is charged with the responsibility of establishing a hospital 1-10 or a hospital system or a clinic within its boundaries to furnish 1-11 hospital and medical care to the residents of the District. After 1-12 this District is created as provided in Section 4 of this Act, no 1-13 other municipality or political subdivision of this State may levy 1-14 taxes or issue bonds or other obligations of indebtedness for the 1-15 purpose of providing hospital service or medical care within the 1-16 District. This District shall provide all necessary hospital and 1-17 medical care for the needy inhabitants of the District. 1-18 (b) The District may contract with Gonzales Healthcare 1-19 Systems for Gonzales Healthcare Systems to lease, manage, or 1-20 operate a health care facility located in the District. 1-21 SECTION 2. Section 10(a), Chapter 191, Acts of the 64th 1-22 Legislature, Regular Session, 1975, is amended to read as follows: 1-23 (a) The board of directors is hereby given complete 1-24 discretion as to the type of buildings, both as to number and 2-1 location, required to establish and maintain an adequate hospital 2-2 system. The hospital system may include facilities deemed 2-3 necessary for hospital care by the directors. The district, 2-4 through its board of directors, is further authorized to enter into 2-5 an operating or management contract with regard to its facilities 2-6 or a part thereof or may lease all or part of its buildings and 2-7 facilities on terms and conditions considered to be to the best 2-8 interest of its inhabitants. The district, through its board of 2-9 directors, may contract with the Nixon Hospital District of 2-10 Gonzales and Wilson Counties, Texas, for the district to lease, 2-11 manage, or operate a health care facility located in the Nixon 2-12 Hospital District of Gonzales and Wilson Counties. The district 2-13 shall be empowered to sell or otherwise dispose of any property, 2-14 real or personal, or equipment of any nature on terms and 2-15 conditions found by the board to be in the best interest of its 2-16 inhabitants. 2-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-23 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1666 was passed by the House on May 11, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1666 was passed by the Senate on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor