76R10175 KLA-F
By Hilbert H.B. No. 2966
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2966:
By Carter C.S.H.B. No. 2966
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of certain hospital authorities to
1-3 provide facilities and services for the elderly or disabled.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 262.034, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended by amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (g) to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (e) This section applies only to an authority that owns or
1-9 operates a hospital licensed under Chapter 241 and that is located
1-10 in:
1-11 (1) a county with a population of 35,000 or less;
1-12 (2) those portions of extended municipalities that the
1-13 federal census bureau has determined to be rural; [or]
1-14 (3) an area that is not delineated as an urbanized
1-15 area by the federal census bureau; or
1-16 (4) a municipality with a population of less than
1-17 12,000 and a county with a population of 2.5 million or more at the
1-18 time the authority begins operating a facility or providing a
1-19 service described by Subsection (a).
1-20 (g) An authority described by Subsection (e)(4) may not own
1-21 or operate more than 50 licensed nursing home beds under this
1-22 section and is not subject to Subsection (f).
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.