By: Lucio S.B. No. 1732
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the creation and operation of health services
districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Amend Section 287.150, Health and Safety Code,
to read as follows:
Sec. 287.021. CREATION BY RESOLUTION OR CONCURRENT
ORDERS. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a county or a
hospital district [and one or more other counties or hospital
districts] may create a health services district by adopting a
resolution. A county or hospital district and one or more other
counties or hospital districts may create a health services
district by adopting concurrent orders.
(b) A county or portion of a county that is in the boundaries
of a hospital district may not be a party to the creation of a health
services district or to a contract with a health services district.
The hospital district that serves the county or portion of the
county may create and contract with the health services district
for the boundaries of the hospital district.
(c) A concurrent order to create a health services district
must:
(1) be approved by the governing body of each creating
county and hospital district;
(2) contain identical provisions; and
(3) define the boundaries of the district to be
coextensive with the combined boundaries of each creating county
and hospital district.
(d) A concurrent order to create a health services district
adopted by a hospital district for which the tax rate is set by the
commissioners court of the county in which the hospital district
operates must be approved by the commissioners court of that
county.
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Title 4, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Section 287.150 to read as follows:
Section 287.150. WITHDRAWAL OF COUNTY FROM A DISTRICT.
(a) A county may withdrawal from a health services district
created and established under this Chapter. A withdrawal by a
county from a health services district becomes effective
immediately upon the adoption of a resolution to that effect by the
commissioners court of that county. Upon a withdrawal by a county
from a health services district in accordance with this section:
(1) all unexpended funds contributed to or held by the
district from the withdrawing county shall be immediately returned
or credited to the withdrawing county; and
(2) the withdrawing county may create or establish a
health services district in accordance with this Chapter.
(b) The withdrawal of a county from a health services
district does not dissolve a district, and a district created and
established under this Chapter retains the powers and duties
granted by this Chapter.
SECTION 3. 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, 2005.