78R3850 EMT-D


By:  Smithee                                                      H.B. No. 1959



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to facilities and other property of the Dallam-Hartley 
Counties Hospital District.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 8, Chapter 128, Acts of the 66th 
Legislature, Regular Session, 1979, is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 8.  DISTRICT PROPERTY.  (a)  The board is given 
complete discretion as to the type, number, and location of 
buildings required to establish and maintain an adequate hospital 
system.  The hospital system may include facilities deemed 
necessary for hospital care by the board.  The board may construct 
and maintain an assisted living facility and a related facility 
that is necessary to operate and maintain an assisted living 
facility. The district, through the board, is further authorized 
to enter into an operating or management contract with regard to all 
or part of its facilities, or may lease all or part of its 
facilities on terms and conditions considered to be to the best 
interest of its inhabitants.  The district may sell or otherwise 
dispose of any real or personal property or equipment of any nature, 
on terms and conditions found by the board to be in the best 
interest of its inhabitants.  It may contract with public or private 
institutions and physicians to provide medical and hospital care 
for its indigent and needy.
	(b)  The board may prescribe the method and manner of making 
purchases and expenditures by and for the hospital district, and 
may prescribe all accounting and control procedures.  Contracts for 
construction involving the expenditure of the amount specified by 
Section 271.024, Local Government Code, may be made only after 
advertising in the manner provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 271, 
Local Government Code.  The provisions of Chapter 2253, Government 
Code, relating to performance and payment bonds apply to 
construction contracts let by the district.  The board may acquire 
by lease, purchase, option to purchase, or lease to purchase 
property, facilities, supplies, or equipment.  The board may 
mortgage or pledge the property, facilities, supplies, or equipment 
and may pledge the revenues from the property, facilities, 
supplies, or equipment as security for the payment of the purchase 
price.  Except as permitted in this subsection and Sections 4A, 6, 
and 7 of this Act, the district may incur no obligation payable from 
revenues of the district, tax or otherwise, except those on hand or 
to be on hand within the then current and following fiscal years of 
the district.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.