By: Darby (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 2318

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019; April 16, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; May 15, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 15, 2019, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to facilities of the hospital system of the Reagan Hospital District of Reagan County, Texas.

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

SECTION 1. Section 1088.104, Special District Local Laws Code, is amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

(c) The hospital system may include:

(1) facilities for domiciliary care of the sick, injured, or geriatric;

(2) outpatient clinics;

(3) dispensaries;

(4) convalescent home facilities;

(5) necessary nurses;

(6) 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 medical care, [and] hospital care, and public safety and health.

(d) A facility for public safety and health described by Subsection (c)(10) may only be:

(1) constructed by the district using private money; and

(2) used by the district, or any governmental entity to which the district leases the facility, for public safety and health purposes.

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, 2019.

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