By Lewis of Tarrant H.B. No. 2942 76R6705 DRH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the lease of certain county property for health and 1-3 human service activities in the public interest. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 263.007, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended by relettering Subsection (f) as Subsection (g) and adding 1-7 a new Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-8 (f) The commissioners court of a county that contains the 1-9 majority of the territory of two or more municipalities each with a 1-10 population of 250,000 or more may lease property owned or 1-11 controlled by the county that was formerly owned or controlled by 1-12 the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to a 1-13 for-profit entity to conduct health and human service activities 1-14 that the commissioners court finds to be in the public interest, 1-15 without using the sealed-bid or sealed-proposal process described 1-16 by Subsection (a) and without using any other competitive bidding 1-17 process that would otherwise be required by law. The commissioners 1-18 court shall follow the procedure prescribed by Subsection (e) for a 1-19 lease under this subsection. 1-20 (g) The procedure authorized by this section is an 1-21 alternative procedure to the procedure authorized by Section 1-22 272.001. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.