By Green                                              H.B. No. 1666
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                                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.