---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the authority of the Lavaca Hospital District to lease district property."
description: "Relating to the authority of the Lavaca Hospital District to lease district property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "HB 2176"
citation: "Texas HB 2176 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LAVACA HOSPITAL DISTRICT (D0623)", "Hospitals (I0400)", "Special Districts & Authorities--Hospital (I0750)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kolkhorst", "Leman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 54
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f0af241-77fc-41ca-b0a5-a5d1937b9c2b"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02100_HB02199/HB 2176.xml"
source_hash: "4078a9a287c827b3a414e7a76c68771e61d67d53cd588fdf6ac4b65656cf3f26"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
---

# Texas HB 2176 (86) — Relating to the authority of the Lavaca Hospital District to lease district property.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB02176I.HTM)

## Sponsors

- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
- Leman — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-21** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-06** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** Referred to County Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-02** Posting rule suspended
- **2019-04-04** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-04** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-04** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2019-04-04** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-18** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-18** Committee substitute considered in committee
- **2019-04-18** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-18** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-26** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-28** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-28** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2019-05-03** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2019-05-07** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2019-05-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-07** Passed to engrossment
- **2019-05-07** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-07** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Record vote
- **2019-05-07** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-07** Reported engrossed
- **2019-05-08** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2019-05-10** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-05-10** Referred to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-10** Rereferred to committee
- **2019-05-10** Referred to Intergovernmental Relations `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-13** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-05-13** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-13** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-05-13** Left pending in committee
- **2019-05-17** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-05-17** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-17** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-17** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-05-22** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-05-22** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-05-22** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-22** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-05-22** Record vote
- **2019-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-22** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Record vote
- **2019-05-23** Senate passage reported
- **2019-05-23** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-24** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-25** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-26** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-14** Effective on 9/1/19 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f0af241-77fc-41ca-b0a5-a5d1937b9c2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).