HB 5722 Summary

• Allows city hospitals established under the Home Rule Cities Act in cities with populations under 100,000 that are not yet incorporated to automatically become corporations under the Municipal Health Facilities Corporations Act without requiring voter approval or filing articles of incorporation.

• Permits city councils to later adopt formal articles of incorporation for hospitals automatically incorporated under the new provision, with the act's provisions serving as temporary articles of incorporation until formal articles become effective.

• Requires that existing board members' terms of office continue undiminished when a hospital is automatically incorporated, and allows appointment procedures to follow the city charter until formal articles of incorporation are adopted.

• Modifies election requirements by creating an exception to the voter approval process for hospitals automatically incorporated by operation of law, while maintaining voter approval requirements for newly establishing corporations.

• Takes effect 90 days after enactment and clarifies that the provisions of the act govern newly incorporated hospitals until formal articles of incorporation specify otherwise.