SUBCHAPTER A PAYMENT OF HOSPITAL DISTRICT OPERATING EXPENSES IN CERTAIN POPULOUS COUNTIES
- Texas Section 285.001 - Definition
In this subchapter, "bond" includes a note. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
- Texas Section 285.002 - Applicability Of Subchapter
This subchapter applies only to a county having: (1) a population of at least 800,000; and (2) a countywide hospital district that: (A) has taxes...
- Texas Section 285.003 - Authority To Make Revenue Anticipation Agreement
(a) The commissioners court of the county may make a revenue anticipation agreement with a person, including a bank or other financial institution, on the...
- Texas Section 285.004 - Terms
(a) Subject to this section, the parties to a revenue anticipation agreement determine its terms. (b) The term of the revenue anticipation agreement may not...
- Texas Section 285.005 - Refunding Prohibited; Repayment Required
(a) An advance may not be refunded, refinanced, or extended. (b) When district revenues are received, the commissioners court shall apply them to the payment...
- Texas Section 285.006 - Security; Default Of Repayment
(a) An advance under a revenue anticipation agreement is secured by and payable from: (1) a pledge of and lien on district revenue from the...
- Texas Section 285.007 - Limitation On Use Of Proceeds; Audit
(a) An advance under a revenue anticipation agreement may be used only for the purposes authorized by this subchapter. (b) It is not a defense...
- Texas Section 285.008 - Bonds
(a) In a revenue anticipation agreement, the commissioners court may promise to execute and deliver, concurrently with the making of advances under the agreement, interest-bearing...
SUBCHAPTER B PARKING STATIONS NEAR HOSPITALS IN COUNTIES OF AT LEAST 1.5 MILLION
- Texas Section 285.009 - Taxes To Secure Bonds
(a) The commissioners court may pay and secure the principal of and interest on bonds issued under this subchapter with annual ad valorem taxes imposed...
- Texas Section 285.021 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Bond order" means the order authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds. (2) "Parking station" means a lot, an area, or a...
- Texas Section 285.022 - Authority To Construct, Improve, Operate, And Lease Parking Station
(a) A hospital district located in a county with a population of more than 1.5 million may construct, enlarge, furnish, equip, operate, or lease a...
- Texas Section 285.023 - Authority To Issue Revenue Bonds; Security
(a) The commissioners court may issue revenue bonds on behalf of the hospital district to pay the costs to construct, enlarge, furnish, or equip the...
- Texas Section 285.024 - Form And Execution Of Bonds
The bonds must: (1) be negotiable; (2) be signed by the county judge; (3) be countersigned by the county clerk; (4) be registered by the...
- Texas Section 285.025 - Terms
(a) Bonds issued under this subchapter must mature serially or otherwise not more than 40 years after they are issued. The bonds may: (1) be...
- Texas Section 285.026 - Approval And Registration Of Bonds
(a) The county must submit to the attorney general bonds issued under this subchapter and the record relating to the issuance of those bonds. (b)...
- Texas Section 285.027 - Other Bonds
(a) Bonds constituting a junior lien on the net revenues may be issued unless prohibited by the bond order or the trust indenture. (b) Parity...
- Texas Section 285.028 - Use Of Proceeds; Initial Costs
An amount necessary for the payment of not more than two years' interest on the bonds and an amount estimated by the commissioners court to...
- Texas Section 285.029 - Change For District Services
The hospital district shall charge sufficient rentals or rates for services rendered by the parking station to produce revenues sufficient to: (1) pay all expenses...
SUBCHAPTER C APPOINTMENT OF TAX ASSESSOR AND COLLECTOR IN HOSPITAL DISTRICTS CREATED UNDER CONSTITUTION
- Texas Section 285.030 - Procedures For Station Operation
The bond order or trust indenture may prescribe procedures for the operation of the parking station. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff....
SUBCHAPTER D SALE, LEASE, OR CLOSING OF HOSPITAL
- Texas Section 285.041 - Appointment Of Tax Assessor And Collector
A hospital district created under Article IX, Section 9, of the Texas Constitution may appoint a tax assessor and collector for the district. Acts 1989,...
- Texas Section 285.051 - Authority Of Governing Body
(a) The governing body of a hospital district by resolution may order the sale, lease, or closing of all or part of a hospital owned...
SUBCHAPTER E SALES AND USE TAX TO LOWER AD VALOREM TAXES
- Texas Section 285.052 - Petition; Election
(a) The governing body of the hospital district shall order and conduct an election on the sale or closing of a hospital if, before the...
- Texas Section 285.061 - Tax Authorized; Tax Rates
(a) A hospital district that is authorized to impose ad valorem taxes may adopt a sales and use tax to lower the district's ad valorem...
- Texas Section 285.062 - Tax Election Procedures
(a) Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, an election to adopt or abolish the tax or to change the rate of the tax is...
- Texas Section 285.063 - Effective Date Of Tax Or Tax Change; Boundary Change
(a) The adoption or abolition of the tax or change in the tax rate takes effect on the first day of the first calendar quarter...
SUBCHAPTER F LIABILITY OF NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CONTRACTOR
- Texas Section 285.064 - Use Of Tax Revenue
Revenue from the tax may be used for any purpose for which ad valorem tax revenue of the district may be used. Added by Acts...
- Texas Section 285.071 - Definition
In this chapter, "hospital district management contractor" means a nonprofit corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship that manages or operates a hospital or provides services under...
SUBCHAPTER G TERMS OF MEMBERS OF GOVERNING BOARD
- Texas Section 285.072 - Liability Of A Hospital District Management Contractor
A hospital district management contractor in its management or operation of a hospital under a contract with a hospital district is considered a governmental unit...
SUBCHAPTER H CONTRACTS, COLLABORATIONS, AND JOINT VENTURES
- Texas Section 285.081 - Terms
(a) The governing board of a hospital district created under general or special law may, on its own motion, order that the members of the...
SUBCHAPTER I LONG-TERM CARE AND RELATED FACILITIES
- Texas Section 285.091 - Hospital District Contracts, Collaborations, And Joint Ventures
(a) A hospital district created under general or special law may, directly or through a nonprofit corporation created or formed by the district, contract, collaborate,...
SUBCHAPTER J WRITE-IN VOTING IN ELECTION FOR BOARD MEMBERS
- Texas Section 285.101 - Facilities Or Services For Elderly Or Disabled
(a) This subchapter applies only to a hospital, hospital district, or authority created and operated under Article IX, Texas Constitution, under a special law, or...
SUBCHAPTER K DISSOLUTION OF HOSPITAL DISTRICT
- Texas Section 285.131 - Write-in Voting In Election For Board Members
(a) In a general or special election for board members of a hospital district created under general or special law, a write-in vote may not...
SUBCHAPTER L SALES AND USE TAX TO RAISE REVENUE FOR DISTRICTS IN SMALL COUNTIES
- Texas Section 285.151 - Assets Transferred On Dissolution
Notwithstanding any general or special law, if a hospital district is dissolved and the money or other assets of the district are transferred to a...
- Texas Section 285.161 - Tax Authorized
(a) A majority of voters in a hospital district created under general or special law of which all or a majority of the territory is...
- Texas Section 285.162 - Tax Rate; Change In Rate
(a) A district may impose the tax in increments of one-eighth of one percent, with a minimum rate of one-eighth of one percent and a...
- Texas Section 285.163 - Tax Election Procedures
(a) An election is called by the adoption of a resolution by the governing body of the district. The governing body shall call an election...
- Texas Section 285.164 - Election In Other Taxing Authority
(a) In this section, "taxing authority" means any entity authorized to impose a local sales and use tax. (b) If a district or proposed district...
- Texas Section 285.165 - Use Of Tax
The taxes imposed may be used to pay: (1) the indebtedness issued or assumed by the district; and (2) the maintenance and operating expenses of...
- Texas Section 285.166 - Effective Date
(a) The adoption or abolition of the tax or a change in the rate of the tax takes effect on the first day of the...
SUBCHAPTER M REGULATION OF SERVICES
- Texas Section 285.167 - County Sales And Use Tax Act Applicable
Except to the extent that a provision of this chapter applies, Chapter 323, Tax Code, applies to the tax authorized by this chapter in the...
- Texas Section 285.201 - Provision Of Medical And Hospital Care
As authorized by 8 U.S.C. Section 1621(d), this chapter affirmatively establishes eligibility for a person who would otherwise be ineligible under 8 U.S.C. Section 1621(a),...
SUBCHAPTER N CHANGE IN RATE OF AD VALOREM TAXES
- Texas Section 285.202 - Use Of Tax Revenue For Abortions; Exception For Medical Emergency
(a) In this section, "medical emergency" means: (1) a condition exists that, in a physician's good faith clinical judgment, complicates the medical condition of the...
SUBCHAPTER O NONPROFIT CORPORATION CREATED OR FORMED BY
- Texas Section 285.231 - Election To Increase Maximum Tax Rate
(a) Registered voters of a hospital district that is authorized to impose ad valorem taxes and that has a maximum tax rate of less than...
- Texas Section 285.301 - Establishment Of Nonprofit Corporation
(a) A hospital district created under general or special law may form and sponsor a nonprofit corporation under the Texas Nonprofit Corporation Law, as described...
SUBCHAPTER Z MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 285.302 - Compliance By Nonprofit Corporation With Certain Laws
A nonprofit corporation created or formed under this subchapter or other law by a hospital district that is created under general or special law shall...
- Texas Section 285.901 - Disposition Of Salvage And Surplus Property
(a) In this section: (1) "Salvage property" has the meaning assigned by Section 263.151, Local Government Code. (2) "Surplus property" has the meaning assigned by...