By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 356
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the abolition of the Texas Hospital Equipment Financing
 1-2     Council.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  The following laws are repealed:
 1-5                 (1)  Chapter 224, Health and Safety Code; and
 1-6                 (2)  Section 151.3131, Tax Code.
 1-7           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 1-8           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 1-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.