1-1 By: Chisum (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 3133
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
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to contracts and obligations of the Stratford Hospital
1-9 District.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 10, Chapter 470, Acts of the 61st
1-12 Legislature, Regular Session, 1969, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 10. The board of directors of such district shall have
1-14 the power to prescribe the method and manner of making purchases
1-15 and expenditures by and for such hospital district, and shall also
1-16 be authorized to prescribe all accounting and control procedures.
1-17 All contracts for construction or purchases involving the
1-18 expenditure of more than $15,000 [$2,000] may be made only after
1-19 advertising in the manner provided by Chapter 252, Local Government
1-20 Code [Chapter 163, Acts of the 42nd Legislature, Regular Session,
1-21 1931, as amended (Article 2368a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)].
1-22 The provisions of Chapter 2253, Government Code, [Article 5160,
1-23 Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended] relating to
1-24 performance and payment bonds shall apply to construction contracts
1-25 let by the district. The district may acquire equipment for use in
1-26 its hospital system and mortgage or pledge the property so acquired
1-27 as security for the payment of the purchase price, but any such
1-28 contract shall provide for the entire obligation of the district to
1-29 be retired within five years from the date of the contract. Except
1-30 as permitted in the preceding sentence and as permitted by Sections
1-31 7 and 8, the district may incur no obligation payable from any
1-32 revenues of the district, taxes or otherwise except those on hand
1-33 or to be on hand within the then current and following fiscal year
1-34 of the district.
1-35 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-36 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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