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.
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