By: Burrows H.B. No. 1583
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the Terry Memorial Hospital District.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1105.051(a), Special District Local Laws
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The district is governed by a board of seven directors
  elected through a cumulative election system with the candidates
  receiving the highest number of votes being declared the winners of
  the election [from the district at large].
               (1)  Each eligible voter will be allowed the number of
  votes equal to the number of director positions being voted on at
  the election.
               (2)  The election will be conducted at large, with all
  candidates running in a common field without any place
  designations.
               (3)  Each eligible voter will be allowed to cast his or
  her votes in any manner according to the voter's preference. A
  voter may cast each of his or her votes for different candidates,
  cast all of his or her votes for one candidate, or portion his or her
  votes in any other manner among the candidates as long as the total
  number of votes cast by each eligible voter does not exceed four.
         SECTION 2.  Section 1105.052, Special District Local Laws
  Code, is revised to read as follows:
         Sec. 1105.052.  NOTICE OF ELECTION. Notice [At least 10 days
  before the date of a directors' election, notice] of the election
  must be published one time in a newspaper of general circulation in
  Terry County in accordance with Section 4.003, Election Code.
         SECTION 3.  Section 1105.053, Special District Local Laws
  Code, is revised to read as follows:
         Sec. 1105.053.  BALLOT APPLICATION [PETITION]. A person who
  wants to have the person 's name printed on the ballot as a
  candidate for director must file an application with the board
  secretary in accordance with Chapter 144, [a petition requesting
  that action. The petition must be:
               (1)  signed by not fewer than 10 registered voters; and
               (2)  filed by the deadline imposed by Section 144.005,]
  Election Code.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2023.