By: Price (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 1293

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2011; April 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; May 19, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 19, 2011, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the Moore County Hospital District.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 1064.104(b), Special District Local Laws Code, as effective April 1, 2011, is amended to read as follows:

(b) The hospital system may include:

(1) facilities for domiciliary care and treatment of the sick or injured;

(2) facilities for outpatient clinics;

(3) dispensaries;

(4) facilities for geriatric [domiciliary] care, including assisted living facilities and independent elderly living facilities;

(5) nursing [convalescent] home facilities;

(6) necessary nurses' domiciliaries and training centers;

(7) blood banks;

(8) community mental health centers;

(9) research centers or laboratories; and

(10) any other facilities the board considers necessary for hospital care.

SECTION 2. Section 1064.110(a), Special District Local Laws Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) A construction or purchase contract that involves the expenditure of more than the amount provided by Section 271.024, Local Government Code, [$15,000] may be made only after advertising in the manner provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 271, Local Government Code.

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, 2011.

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