By Solis                                              H.B. No. 1092
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to changing the name of the South Texas Hospital to the
 1-3     South Texas Health Care Center and to eliminating certain obsolete
 1-4     provisions relating to the hospital.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1. Section 11.004(a), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-7     amended to read as follows:
 1-8           (a)  The department is composed of the board, the
 1-9     commissioner, an administrative staff, the Texas Center for
1-10     Infectious Disease, the South Texas Health Care Center [Hospital],
1-11     and other officers and employees necessary to perform efficiently
1-12     its powers and duties.
1-13           SECTION 2. Section 13.003, Health and Safety Code, is amended
1-14     to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 13.003.  SERVICES AT SOUTH TEXAS HEALTH CARE CENTER
1-16     [HOSPITAL]. (a)  The primary purpose of the South Texas Health Care
1-17     Center [Hospital] is to provide inpatient and outpatient services,
1-18     either directly or by contract with one or more public or private
1-19     health care providers or entities, to the residents of the Lower
1-20     Rio Grande Valley.
1-21           (b)  The board may establish at the South Texas Health Care
1-22     Center [Hospital]:
1-23                 (1)  cancer screening;
1-24                 (2)  diagnostic services;
 2-1                 (3)  educational services;
 2-2                 (4)  obstetrical services;
 2-3                 (5)  gynecological services;
 2-4                 (6)  other inpatient health care services; and
 2-5                 (7)  outpatient health care services, including
 2-6     diagnostic, treatment, disease management, and supportive care
 2-7     services.
 2-8           SECTION 3. Section 13.033(5), Health and Safety Code, is
 2-9     amended to read as follows:
2-10                 (5)  "State chest hospital" means the Texas Center for
2-11     Infectious Disease and the South Texas Health Care Center
2-12     [Hospital].
2-13           SECTION 4.  (a)  Sections 13.007 and 13.008, Health and
2-14     Safety Code, are repealed.
2-15           (b)  Subchapter C, Chapter 13, Health and Safety Code, is
2-16     repealed.
2-17           SECTION 5.  (a)  A reference in law to the South Texas
2-18     Hospital means the South Texas Health Care Center.
2-19           (b)  An appropriation to the Texas Department of Health for
2-20     the use and benefit of the South Texas Hospital is available for
2-21     the use and benefit of the South Texas Health Care Center.
2-22           SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a
2-23     vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-24     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
2-25     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-26     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.