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          By Rudd                                                H.B. No. 200
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to election of the board of directors of the Reeves County
    1-3  Hospital District.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 4.05(a), Chapter 11, Acts of the 70th
    1-6  Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1987, is amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (a)  A person who wishes to have his name printed on the
    1-9  ballot as a candidate for director must file an application with
   1-10  the secretary of the board of directors <not later than the 31st
   1-11  day before the date of the election>.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Chapter 11, Acts of the 70th Legislature, 2nd
   1-13  Called Session, 1987, is amended by adding Section 4.05A to read as
   1-14  follows:
   1-15        Sec. 4.05A.  ELECTIONS.  Except as otherwise provided by this
   1-16  Act, an election held under this Act must be held in compliance
   1-17  with the applicable provisions of the Election Code.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.