By: Perry S.B. No. 1014
(In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2019; March 7, 2019,
read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations; April 1, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 1, 2019, sent to printer.)
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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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