By Green H.B. No. 1666 76R7053 KLA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to allowing a hospital district to lease, manage, or 1-3 operate a health care facility operated by an adjacent political 1-4 subdivision. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 285, Health and Safety 1-7 Code, is amended by adding Section 285.092 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 285.092. HOSPITAL DISTRICT CONTRACTS RELATED TO HEALTH 1-9 CARE FACILITIES. (a) In this section, "political subdivision" 1-10 means any corporate or political entity organized under state law, 1-11 including a municipality, county, or hospital district. 1-12 (b) A hospital district created under general or special law 1-13 may contract with an adjacent political subdivision to lease, 1-14 operate, or manage a health care facility operated by an adjacent 1-15 political subdivision. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-17 SECTION 3. 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.