1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 356 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 8, 1999; February 9, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 February 22, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 1-5 8, Nays 0; February 22, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the abolition of the Texas Hospital Equipment Financing 1-9 Council. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. The following laws are repealed: 1-12 (1) Chapter 224, Health and Safety Code; and 1-13 (2) Section 151.3131, Tax Code. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-20 * * * * *