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Hospital Authority Act

Texas · HS · §§ 262.001 to 262.050 · 42 sections

Overview

This act provides for the creation of hospital authorities as public bodies empowered to acquire, own, operate, and lease hospitals and related health care facilities, including services for elderly and disabled persons. It establishes their governance through appointed boards of directors — addressing terms of office, officers, committees, and compensation — and grants operating powers such as employing staff, entering management agreements and joint ventures, setting rates for hospital services, exercising eminent domain, accepting gifts and endowments, forming affiliated nonprofit corporations, and holding funds exempt from taxation. It further authorizes financing through borrowing and the issuance of revenue bonds, prescribing their form, terms, notice, referendum, lien priority, investment of proceeds, and refunding, and sets out procedures for the sale or closing of a hospital, the use of resulting funds for public health purposes, and the dissolution of the authority.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 10 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 491 SW3D 68 - Lenoir v. U.T. Physicians

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