By Chisum H.B. No. 3122
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Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the Dallam-Hartley Counties Hospital District.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 4, Chapter 128, Acts of the 66th
1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979, is amended by adding
1-6 subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
1-7 (d) The district may contract with, affiliate with, have an
1-8 ownership interest in, or enter into another arrangement with a
1-9 managed care system, a preferred provider organization, a health
1-10 maintenance organization, a medical services organization, another
1-11 provider of alternative health care or delivery system or a private
1-12 hospital to jointly administer or deliver health care services.
1-13 The district may spend district funds to establish, maintain and
1-14 have an ownership interest in, partnerships, corporations, or other
1-15 entities involved in the delivery of health care services.
1-16 (e) The district may sponsor, create and have a membership
1-17 interest in a nonstock corporation under the Texas Non-Profit
1-18 Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil
1-19 Statutes) and may contribute funds to or solicit funds for the
1-20 corporation. The corporation may use funds, other than funds paid
1-21 by the corporation to the district, only to provide health care or
2-1 other services the district may provide under this Act. The board
2-2 of directors of the district shall establish adequate controls to
2-3 ensure that the corporation uses its funds as required by this
2-4 subsection. The corporation may invest corporation funds in any
2-5 manner in which the district may invest funds, including investing
2-6 funds as authorized by Chapter 2256, Government Code.
2-7 SECTION 2. Sec. 8(b), Chapter 128, Acts of the 66th
2-8 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979, is amended to read as follows:
2-9 (b) The board may prescribe the method and manner of making
2-10 purchases and expenditures by and for the hospital district, and
2-11 may prescribe all accounting and control procedures. Contracts for
2-12 construction involving the expenditure of more than [$10,000] the
2-13 amount specified in Subchapter B, Chapter 271, Section 271.024,
2-14 Local Government Code, may be made only after advertising in the
2-15 manner provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 251, Local Government
2-16 Code. The provisions of [Article 5160, Revised Civil Statutes of
2-17 Texas, 1925,] Chapter 2253, Tex. Government Code, as amended,
2-18 relating to performance and repayment bonds shall apply to
2-19 construction contracts let by the district. The board may acquire
2-20 by lease, purchase, or lease to purchase property, facilities,
2-21 supplies, or equipment and may mortgage or pledge the property,
2-22 facilities, supplies or equipment, and the revenues therefrom, as
2-23 security for the payment of the purchase price. Except as
2-24 permitted in this subsection and Sections 4A, 6, and 7 of this Act,
2-25 the district may incur no obligation payable from revenues of the
3-1 district, tax or otherwise, except those on hand or to be on hand
3-2 within the then current and following fiscal years of the district.
3-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-9 passage, and it is so enacted.