By Hilbert H.B. No. 2966 76R9202 T A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of Tomball Hospital Authority to provide 1-3 health care services. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 262.034, Texas Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended by adding subdivisions (g) to read as follows: 1-7 (g) The restrictions contained in subsections (e) and (f) 1-8 shall not apply to an authority created by a municipality with a 1-9 population of less than 12,000 and that is located in a county with 1-10 a population of 2.5 million or more, provided that the authority 1-11 does not own or operate more fifty licensed nursing home beds. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.