Transcript of Dr. Meader's Typed Bill:
House Bill No. 232 By Messes: Johnson (Boulder) and Niven
A Bill for an act relating to the hospital established by Chapter 174 of the Session Laws of 1921.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Colorado:
Section 1: The name and style of the hospital authorized in Chapter 174 of the Session Laws of 1921 shall be the Colorado General hospital, hereinafter called the Hospital.
Section 2: The conduct of the said Hospital shall be vested by the Board of Regents of the University of Colorado. Said Board of Regents shall have full power to manage, control and govern the said Hospital under such rules and regulations as they may from time to time time prescribe, and shall appoint all officers, staff and employees of said hospital.
Said Board of Regents shall have full power and authority to access legacies, bequests and donations which may be tendered in good faith for the benefit of the said Hospital and to apply the same to the furtherance of the purposes of said Hospital, to the end that those benefits may accrue to the greatest possible extent to the afflicted citizens of the state.
Section 3: Said Hospital shall be primarily and principally conducted for the care of legal residents of Colorado who are afflicted, not with chronic illness, but with a malady, deformity, or aliment of a nature which can probably be remedied by hospital care and treatment, and who are unable financially to secure such care, or in case of a minor, whose parent, guardian, trustee or other person having lawful custody of his person, as the case may be, is unable financially to secure such care.