By Coleman                                            H.B. No. 3299
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to an amendment to Article 717q, Revised Civil Statutes,
 1-3     as amended.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 1(1)(H), Article 717q, Revised Civil
 1-6     Statutes, as amended, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (H)  any hospital authority or hospital district in a county
 1-8     with a population of more than 2 million, according to the most
 1-9     recent federal census, or any hospital authority in a county that
1-10     is included, in whole or in part, in a standard metropolitan
1-11     statistical area of this state that includes a county with a
1-12     population of more than 1,800,000, that was created or is operating
1-13     under Chapter 262, Health and Safety Code, or Chapter 264, Health
1-14     and Safety Code.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.