By: Seliger  S.B. No. 1212
         (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2021; March 18, 2021, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Local Government;
  April 8, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; April 8, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the composition of the board of directors of the Booker
  Hospital District.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1003.051, Special District Local Laws
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 1003.051.  BOARD. The district is governed by a board
  of five [seven] directors.
         SECTION 2.  Section 1003.052(a), Special District Local Laws
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Unless a four-year term is established under Section
  285.081, Health and Safety Code:
               (1)  directors serve staggered terms of two years;
               (2)  two [three] directors shall be elected in
  odd-numbered years and three [four] directors shall be elected in
  even-numbered years; and
               (3)  a directors election shall be held on the first
  Saturday in May of each year to elect the appropriate number of
  directors.
         SECTION 3.  (a)  At the election for directors of the Booker
  Hospital District to be held on May 7, 2022, five directors shall be
  elected.  The three directors who receive the three highest number
  of total votes cast at the election shall serve two-year terms and
  the two directors who receive the fourth and fifth highest number of
  total votes cast at the election shall serve one-year terms.
         (b)  Notwithstanding Section 1003.051, Special District
  Local Laws Code, as amended by this Act, the seven directors serving
  on the board of directors immediately before the effective date of
  this Act continue to serve as the district's governing body until a
  majority of the directors elected on May 7, 2022, take office, and
  the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.  The terms
  of the directors serving on the board of directors immediately
  before the effective date of this Act expire on the date a majority
  of the directors elected on May 7, 2022, take office.
         (c)  Service on the board of directors of the district before
  May 7, 2022, does not make a person ineligible for election as a
  director of the district at the election held on May 7, 2022, or at a
  subsequent election of district directors.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
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