By: Guerra (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa)	H.B. No. 2476
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2015;
	April 30, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Intergovernmental Relations; May 11, 2015, reported adversely,
	with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
	Nays 0; May 11, 2015, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2476	By:  Bettencourt

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the operations of health care funding districts in
	certain counties located on the Texas-Mexico border.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 288.001(4), Health and Safety Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(4)  "Institutional health care provider" means a
	nonpublic hospital that provides inpatient hospital services
	[licensed under Chapter 241].
	SECTION 2.  Section 288.0032, Health and Safety Code, is
	repealed.
	SECTION 3.  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, 2015.
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