By Chisum H.B. No. 3133
76R9106 CMR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to contracts and obligations of the Stratford Hospital
1-3 District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 10, Chapter 470, Acts of the 61st
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1969, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 10. The board of directors of such district shall have
1-8 the power to prescribe the method and manner of making purchases
1-9 and expenditures by and for such hospital district, and shall also
1-10 be authorized to prescribe all accounting and control procedures.
1-11 All contracts for construction or purchases involving the
1-12 expenditure of more than $15,000 [$2,000] may be made only after
1-13 advertising in the manner provided by Chapter 252, Local Government
1-14 Code [Chapter 163, Acts of the 42nd Legislature, Regular Session,
1-15 1931, as amended (Article 2368a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)].
1-16 The provisions of Chapter 2253, Government Code, [Article 5160,
1-17 Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended] relating to
1-18 performance and payment bonds shall apply to construction contracts
1-19 let by the district. The district may acquire equipment for use in
1-20 its hospital system and mortgage or pledge the property so acquired
1-21 as security for the payment of the purchase price, but any such
1-22 contract shall provide for the entire obligation of the district to
1-23 be retired within five years from the date of the contract. Except
1-24 as permitted in the preceding sentence and as permitted by Sections
2-1 7 and 8, the district may incur no obligation payable from any
2-2 revenues of the district, taxes or otherwise except those on hand
2-3 or to be on hand within the then current and following fiscal year
2-4 of the district.
2-5 SECTION 2. Chapter 470, Acts of the 61st Legislature,
2-6 Regular Session, 1969, is amended by adding Section 16A to read as
2-7 follows:
2-8 Sec. 16A. The district is exempt from Section 504.011, Labor
2-9 Code, to the extent that the section requires the district to
2-10 provide workers' compensation benefits to its employees.
2-11 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-12 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.