By Luna, Seaman, Capelo H.B. No. 3776 76R12789 CMR-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the use of certain funds by the Nueces County Hospital 1-3 District. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 281, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 281.094 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 281.094. USE OF CERTAIN FUNDS BY THE NUECES COUNTY 1-8 HOSPITAL DISTRICT. (a) With the approval of the Nueces County 1-9 Commissioners Court, the board of the Nueces County Hospital 1-10 District may use funds made available to the district from sources 1-11 other than a tax levy to fund health care services, including 1-12 public health services, mental health and mental retardation 1-13 services, emergency medical services, health services provided to 1-14 persons confined in jail facilities, and for other health related 1-15 purposes. 1-16 (b) The board of the Nueces County Hospital District may use 1-17 funds made available to the district from any source to fund 1-18 indigent health care. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.