H.B. No. 1211 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the tax rate of the Comanche County Hospital District. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 203, Acts of the 63rd Legislature, 1-5 Regular Session, 1973, is amended by adding Section 15A to read as 1-6 follows: 1-7 Sec. 15A. (a) The board of directors may order an election 1-8 on the question of decreasing the district's maximum tax rate to 35 1-9 cents on each $100 of valuation on all taxable property in the 1-10 district. The board shall order an election on this question if 1-11 the board receives a petition requesting an election that is signed 1-12 by at least 50 of the registered voters in the district. 1-13 (b) The election shall be held not later than the 60th day 1-14 after the date on which the election is ordered. Section 1-15 41.001(a), Election Code, does not apply to an election ordered 1-16 under this section. 1-17 (c) The ballot for the election shall be printed to permit 1-18 voting for or against the proposition: "The levy of annual taxes 1-19 by the district for hospital purposes at a rate not to exceed 30 1-20 cents on the $100 valuation of all taxable property in the 1-21 district." The election shall be held in accordance with the 1-22 applicable provisions of the Election Code. 1-23 (d) The board shall meet and canvass the election returns. 1-24 If a majority of the votes favor the proposition, the board may 2-1 levy taxes as authorized by the proposition. If a majority of the 2-2 votes do not favor the proposition, another election on the 2-3 question of decreasing the district's maximum tax rate may not be 2-4 held before the first anniversary of the most recent election at 2-5 which voters disapproved the proposition. 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.