76R10142 KLA-F
By Chisum H.B. No. 3122
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3122:
By Swinford C.S.H.B. No. 3122
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the powers, duties, and operations of the
1-3 Dallam-Hartley Counties Hospital District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4, Chapter 128, Acts of the 66th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979, is amended by adding
1-7 Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
1-8 (d) The district may contract with, affiliate with, have an
1-9 ownership interest in, or enter into another arrangement with a
1-10 managed care system, a preferred provider organization, a health
1-11 maintenance organization, a medical services organization, another
1-12 provider of alternative health care or delivery system, or a
1-13 private hospital to jointly administer or deliver health care
1-14 services. The district may spend district funds to establish,
1-15 maintain, and have an ownership interest in partnerships,
1-16 corporations, or other entities involved in the delivery of health
1-17 care services.
1-18 (e) The district may sponsor, create, and have a membership
1-19 interest in a nonstock corporation under the Texas Non-Profit
1-20 Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil
1-21 Statutes) and may contribute funds to or solicit funds for the
1-22 corporation. The corporation may use funds, other than funds paid
1-23 by the corporation to the district, only to provide health care or
1-24 other services the district may provide under this Act. The board
2-1 of directors of the hospital district shall establish adequate
2-2 controls to ensure that the corporation uses its funds as required
2-3 by this subsection. The corporation may invest corporation funds
2-4 in any manner in which the district may invest funds, including
2-5 investing funds as authorized by Chapter 2256, Government Code.
2-6 SECTION 2. Section 8(b), Chapter 128, Acts of the 66th
2-7 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979, is amended to read as follows:
2-8 (b) The board may prescribe the method and manner of making
2-9 purchases and expenditures by and for the hospital district, and
2-10 may prescribe all accounting and control procedures. Contracts for
2-11 construction involving the expenditure of the amount specified by
2-12 Section 271.024, Local Government Code, [more than $10,000] may be
2-13 made only after advertising in the manner provided by Subchapter B,
2-14 Chapter 271, Local Government Code. The provisions of Chapter
2-15 2253, Government Code [Article 5160, Revised Civil Statutes of
2-16 Texas, 1925, as amended], relating to performance and payment
2-17 bonds [shall] apply to construction contracts let by the district.
2-18 The board may acquire by lease, purchase, or lease to purchase
2-19 property, facilities, supplies, or equipment. The board [and] may
2-20 mortgage or pledge the property, facilities, supplies, or equipment
2-21 and may pledge the revenues from the property, facilities,
2-22 supplies, or equipment as security for the payment of the purchase
2-23 price. Except as permitted in this subsection and Sections 4A, 6,
2-24 and 7 of this Act, the district may incur no obligation payable
2-25 from revenues of the district, tax or otherwise, except those on
2-26 hand or to be on hand within the then current and following fiscal
2-27 years of the district.
3-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-7 passage, and it is so enacted.