Bill Text: TX SB628 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Childress County Hospital District to provide facilities and services for persons who are elderly or disabled; providing authority to issue bonds and notes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-28 - Effective immediately [SB628 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB628-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Childress County Hospital District to provide facilities and services for persons who are elderly or disabled; providing authority to issue bonds and notes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-28 - Effective immediately [SB628 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB628-Comm_Sub.html
By: Duncan | S.B. No. 628 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 11, 2011; February 17, 2011, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human | ||
Services; March 15, 2011, rereferred to Committee on | ||
Intergovernmental Relations; March 28, 2011, reported favorably by | ||
the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; March 28, 2011, sent to | ||
printer.) |
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relating to the authority of the Childress County Hospital District | ||
to provide facilities and services for persons who are elderly or | ||
disabled; providing authority to issue bonds and notes. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 1012, Special District | ||
Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 1012.114 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 1012.114. FACILITIES OR SERVICES FOR PERSONS WHO ARE | ||
ELDERLY OR DISABLED. (a) The district may: | ||
(1) purchase, construct, acquire, repair, renovate, | ||
equip, or administer the following types of facilities or services | ||
for the care of persons who are elderly or disabled: | ||
(A) a nursing home or similar long-term care | ||
facility; | ||
(B) elderly housing; | ||
(C) assisted living; | ||
(D) home health; | ||
(E) personal care; | ||
(F) special care; or | ||
(G) continuing care; and | ||
(2) purchase, acquire, repair, or equip durable | ||
medical equipment to provide services to persons who are elderly or | ||
disabled. | ||
(b) For a facility or service described by Subsection (a), | ||
the board may: | ||
(1) lease or enter into an operating or management | ||
agreement relating to all or part of a facility or service that is | ||
owned by the district; | ||
(2) close, transfer, sell, or otherwise convey all or | ||
part of a facility; and | ||
(3) discontinue all or part of a service. | ||
(c) The board may issue general obligation bonds, revenue | ||
bonds, and other notes to acquire, construct, or improve a facility | ||
for the care of persons who are elderly or disabled or to implement | ||
the delivery of a service for the care of persons who are elderly or | ||
disabled. | ||
(d) For the purposes of this section, a facility or service | ||
described by Subsection (a) is a hospital project under Chapter | ||
223, Health and Safety Code, notwithstanding Section 223.002 of | ||
that chapter. | ||
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, 2011. | ||
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