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  The following laws are repealed: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.
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