1-1     By:  Lucio                                            S.B. No. 1065
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 2001; March 6, 2001, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
 1-4     March 19, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 19, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to changing the name of the South Texas Hospital to the
 1-9     South Texas Health Care System and to eliminating certain obsolete
1-10     provisions relating to the hospital.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 11.004, Health and Safety
1-13     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-14           (a)  The department is composed of the board, the
1-15     commissioner, an administrative staff, the Texas Center for
1-16     Infectious Disease, the South Texas Health Care System [Hospital],
1-17     and other officers and employees necessary to perform efficiently
1-18     its powers and duties.
1-19           SECTION 2.  Section 13.003, Health and Safety Code, is
1-20     amended to read as follows:
1-21           Sec. 13.003.  SERVICES AT SOUTH TEXAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
1-22     [HOSPITAL].  (a)  The primary purpose of the South Texas Health
1-23     Care System [Hospital] is to provide inpatient and outpatient
1-24     services, either directly or by contract with one or more public or
1-25     private health care providers or entities, to the residents of the
1-26     Lower Rio Grande Valley.
1-27           (b)  The board may establish at the South Texas Health Care
1-28     System [Hospital]:
1-29                 (1)  cancer screening;
1-30                 (2)  diagnostic services;
1-31                 (3)  educational services;
1-32                 (4)  obstetrical services;
1-33                 (5)  gynecological services;
1-34                 (6)  other inpatient health care services; and
1-35                 (7)  outpatient health care services, including
1-36     diagnostic, treatment, disease management, and supportive care
1-37     services.
1-38           SECTION 3.  Subdivision (5), Section 13.033, Health and
1-39     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-40                 (5)  "State chest hospital" means the Texas Center for
1-41     Infectious Disease and the South Texas Health Care System
1-42     [Hospital].
1-43           SECTION 4.  (a)  Sections 13.007 and 13.008, Health and
1-44     Safety Code, are repealed.
1-45           (b)  Subchapter C, Chapter 13, Health and Safety Code, is
1-46     repealed.
1-47           SECTION 5.  (a)  A reference in law to the South Texas
1-48     Hospital means the South Texas Health Care System.
1-49           (b)  An appropriation to the Texas Department of Health for
1-50     the use and benefit of the South Texas Hospital is available for
1-51     the use and benefit of the South Texas Health Care System.
1-52           SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-53     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-54     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-55     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-56     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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