Bill Text: TX HB2318 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to facilities of the hospital system of the Reagan Hospital District of Reagan County, Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB2318 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2318-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to facilities of the hospital system of the Reagan Hospital District of Reagan County, Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB2318 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2318-Comm_Sub.html
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.) | ||
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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, [ |
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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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