1-1 By: Luna, Seaman, Capelo (Senate Sponsor - Truan) H.B. No. 3776 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999; 1-3 May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; 1-4 May 13, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, 1-5 Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the use of certain funds by the Nueces County Hospital 1-9 District. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 281, Health and Safety 1-12 Code, is amended by adding Section 281.094 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 281.094. USE OF CERTAIN FUNDS BY THE NUECES COUNTY 1-14 HOSPITAL DISTRICT. (a) With the approval of the Nueces County 1-15 Commissioners Court, the board of the Nueces County Hospital 1-16 District may use funds made available to the district from sources 1-17 other than a tax levy to fund health care services, including 1-18 public health services, mental health and mental retardation 1-19 services, emergency medical services, health services provided to 1-20 persons confined in jail facilities, and for other health related 1-21 purposes. 1-22 (b) The board of the Nueces County Hospital District may use 1-23 funds made available to the district from any source to fund 1-24 indigent health care. 1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-31 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-32 * * * * *