By: Bivins S.B. No. 1526
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the Dallam-Hartley Counties Hospital District.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 4, Chapter 128, Acts of the 66th
1-4 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979, is amended by adding
1-5 subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
1-6 (d) The district may contract with, affiliate with, have an
1-7 ownership interest in, or enter into another arrangement with a
1-8 managed care system, a preferred provider organization, a health
1-9 maintenance organization, a medical services organization, another
1-10 provider of alternative health care or delivery system or a private
1-11 hospital to jointly administer or deliver health care services.
1-12 The district may spend district funds to establish, maintain and
1-13 have an ownership interest in, partnerships, corporations, or other
1-14 entities involved in the delivery of health care services.
1-15 (e) The district may sponsor, create and have a membership
1-16 interest in a nonstock corporation under the Texas Non-Profit
1-17 Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil
1-18 Statutes) and may contribute funds to or solicit funds for the
1-19 corporation. The corporation may use funds, other than funds paid
1-20 by the corporation to the district, only to provide health care or
1-21 other services the district may provide under the Act. The board
1-22 of directors of the district shall establish adequate controls to
2-1 ensure that the corporation uses its funds as required by this
2-2 subsection. The corporation may invest corporation funds in any
2-3 manner in which the district may invest funds, including investing
2-4 funds as authorized by Chapter 2256, Government Code.
2-5 SECTION 2. Sec. 8(b), Chapter 128, Acts of the 66th
2-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1979, is amended to read as follows:
2-7 (b) The board may prescribe the method and manner of making
2-8 purchases and expenditures by and for the hospital district, and
2-9 may prescribe all accounting and control procedures. Contracts for
2-10 construction involving the expenditure of more than [$10,000] the
2-11 amount specified in Subchapter B, Chapter 271, Section 271.024,
2-12 Local Government Code, may be made only after advertising in the
2-13 manner provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 251, Local Government
2-14 Code. The provisions of [Article 5160, Revised Civil Statutes of
2-15 Texas, 1925,] Chapter 2253, Tex. Government Code, as amended,
2-16 relating to performance and repayment bonds shall apply to
2-17 construction contracts let by the district. The board may acquire
2-18 by lease, purchase, or lease to purchase property, facilities,
2-19 supplies, or equipment and may mortgage or pledge the property,
2-20 facilities, supplies or equipment, and the revenues therefrom, as
2-21 security for the payment of the purchase price. Except as
2-22 permitted in this subsection and Sections 4A, 6, and 7 of this Act,
2-23 the district may incur no obligation payable from revenues of the
2-24 district, tax or otherwise, except those on hand or to be on hand
2-25 within the then current and following fiscal years of the district.
2-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-6 passage, and it is so enacted.