By: Lucio S.B. No. 1065
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 System 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. Subsection (a), Section 11.004, Health and Safety
1-7 Code, is 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 System [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
1-14 amended to read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 13.003. SERVICES AT SOUTH TEXAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
1-16 [HOSPITAL]. (a) The primary purpose of the South Texas Health
1-17 Care System [Hospital] is to provide inpatient and outpatient
1-18 services, either directly or by contract with one or more public or
1-19 private health care providers or entities, to the residents of the
1-20 Lower Rio Grande Valley.
1-21 (b) The board may establish at the South Texas Health Care
1-22 System [Hospital]:
1-23 (1) cancer screening;
1-24 (2) diagnostic services;
1-25 (3) educational services;
2-1 (4) obstetrical services;
2-2 (5) gynecological services;
2-3 (6) other inpatient health care services; and
2-4 (7) outpatient health care services, including
2-5 diagnostic, treatment, disease management, and supportive care
2-6 services.
2-7 SECTION 3. Subdivision (5), Section 13.033, Health and
2-8 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
2-9 (5) "State chest hospital" means the Texas Center for
2-10 Infectious Disease and the South Texas Health Care System
2-11 [Hospital].
2-12 SECTION 4. (a) Sections 13.007 and 13.008, Health and
2-13 Safety Code, are repealed.
2-14 (b) Subchapter C, Chapter 13, Health and Safety Code, is
2-15 repealed.
2-16 SECTION 5. (a) A reference in law to the South Texas
2-17 Hospital means the South Texas Health Care System.
2-18 (b) An appropriation to the Texas Department of Health for
2-19 the use and benefit of the South Texas Hospital is available for
2-20 the use and benefit of the South Texas Health Care System.
2-21 SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-22 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-23 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-24 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-25 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.