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 The following laws are repealed: 1-5 (1) Chapter 224, Health and Safety Code; and 1-6 (2) Section 151.3131, Tax Code. 1-7 SECTION 2.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. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I hereby certify that S.B. No. 356 passed the Senate on March 1, 1999, by a viva-voce vote. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate I hereby certify that S.B. No. 356 passed the House on April 16, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Approved: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor