Adopted

 

AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

 

Cmte Sub for Senate Bill No. 2757

 

BY: Senator(s) Fillingane

 

     AMEND on line 98 by adding the following after the period:

Provided, however, that this state action immunity from liability under the federal and state antitrust laws shall be limited to consolidations, collaborative activities and other activities and transactions contemplated in this section and in Section 7 of this act that involve the regional health care authority and a hospital or hospitals and related facilities, health care services, assets, rights and interests in Forrest and/or Lamar Counties.

     FURTHER, AMEND by deleting lines 357 through 360 in their entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

          (k)  To operate and provide health care and all other services, and to perform all other activities which the regional health care authority is authorized to perform, in the following counties:  Forrest, Lamar, Jones, Marion, Covington, Jefferson Davis, Walthall, Perry, Pearl River, Stone, Lawrence, Wayne, Greene, Jasper, Smith, George, Simpson, Pike and Hancock Counties.

     FURTHER, AMEND on line 364 by inserting the following after "immunity""

, for Forrest and/or Lamar Counties exclusively,

     FURTHER, AMEND by inserting the following after line 294:

          (e)  Notwithstanding anything contained in this act to the contrary, neither the Board nor any other governing body of the authority shall have the right or power to expand:

              (i)  The geographic limits of the authority as stated in Section 7 of this act; and/or

              (ii)  State action immunity from liability under the federal and state antitrust laws as stated in Section 2 and Section 7 of this act.  Such immunity is extended to Forrest and/or Lamar Counties exclusively.