DEFINITIONS.

In this chapter:

(1) "Authority" means a public health authority, including a hospital authority created under Chapter 262 or 264.

(2) "Bond" includes a note.

(3) "Issuer" means an authority, municipality, county, or hospital district.

(4) "Hospital project" means existing or future real, personal, or mixed property, or an interest in that property, other than a nursing home licensed or required to be licensed under the authority of this state, the financing, refinancing, acquiring, providing, constructing, enlarging, remodeling, renovating, improving, furnishing, or equipping of which is found by the governing body of an issuer to be necessary for medical care, research, training, or teaching in this state. A hospital project may include one or more of the following properties if found by the governing body of an issuer to be necessary or convenient for the project:

(A) land, a building, equipment, machinery, furniture, a facility, or an improvement;

(B) a structure suitable for use as:

(i) a hospital, clinic, health facility, extended care facility, outpatient facility, rehabilitation or recreation facility, pharmacy, medical laboratory, dental laboratory, physicians' office building, or laundry or administrative facility or building related to a health facility or system;

(ii) a multiunit housing facility for medical staff, nurses, interns, other employees of a health facility or system, patients of a health facility, or relatives of patients admitted for treatment or care in a health facility;

(iii) a support facility related to a hospital project such as an office building, parking lot or building, or maintenance, safety, or utility facility, and related equipment; or

(iv) a medical or dental research facility, medical or dental training facility, or another facility used in the education or training of health care personnel;

(C) property or material used in the landscaping, equipping, or furnishing of a hospital project and other similar items necessary or convenient for the operation of a hospital project; and

(D) any other structure, facility, or equipment related or essential to the operation of a health facility or system.

(5) "Nonprofit organization" means:

(A) a nonprofit corporation established under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); or

(B) an association, foundation, trust, cooperative, or similar person no part of the net earnings of which is distributable to any private shareholder or individual and that incurs a contractual obligation with an issuer with respect to a hospital project under this chapter.