1-1 By: Hilbert (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay) H.B. No. 2966
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
1-3 April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Human
1-4 Services; May 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the authority of certain hospital authorities to
1-9 provide facilities and services for the elderly or disabled.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 262.034, Health and Safety Code, is
1-12 amended by amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (g) to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 (e) This section applies only to an authority that owns or
1-15 operates a hospital licensed under Chapter 241 and that is located
1-16 in:
1-17 (1) a county with a population of 35,000 or less;
1-18 (2) those portions of extended municipalities that the
1-19 federal census bureau has determined to be rural; [or]
1-20 (3) an area that is not delineated as an urbanized
1-21 area by the federal census bureau; or
1-22 (4) a municipality with a population of less than
1-23 12,000 and a county with a population of 2.5 million or more at the
1-24 time the authority begins operating a facility or providing a
1-25 service described by Subsection (a).
1-26 (g) An authority described by Subsection (e)(4) may not own
1-27 or operate more than 50 licensed nursing home beds under this
1-28 section and is not subject to Subsection (f).
1-29 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-30 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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