By: Guillen H.B. No. 4704
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Starr County Hospital District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 5, Chapter 118, Acts of the 63rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 1973, is amended by adding a new
subsection (k) to read as follows:
(k) The hospital district may employ physicians and other
health care providers as the district considers necessary for the
efficient operation of the district. This subsection may not be
construed as authorizing the hospital district to supervise or
control the practice of medicine, as prohibited by Subtitle B,
Title 3, Occupations Code.
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, 2009.