1-1 By: Uher (Senate Sponsor - Patterson) H.B. No. 335
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
1-3 April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 12, 1995, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 12, 1995, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the period for filing a petition for a place on the
1-10 ballot for the board of directors of the Sweeny Hospital District.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 3, Chapter 135, Acts of the 58th
1-13 Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, is amended to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 3. Within ten (10) days after such election is held the
1-15 election judges shall convene and canvass the returns of the
1-16 election, and if a majority of the qualified property taxpaying
1-17 electors voting at said election voted in favor of the proposition,
1-18 they shall so find and declare the hospital district established
1-19 and created and O. K. Hitchcock, Earl Wells, Bobby W. Brown, George
1-20 Sparkman and Roy Walby shall be the directors of the district to
1-21 serve until the first Saturday in April following the creation and
1-22 establishment of the district at which time five (5) directors
1-23 shall be elected. The three (3) directors receiving the highest
1-24 vote at such first election shall serve for two (2) years, the
1-25 other two (2) directors shall serve for one (1) year. On the
1-26 effective date of this amendment, the board of directors shall
1-27 appoint two (2) new members to the board, one (1) to serve until
1-28 the first Saturday in April, 1974, and one (1) to serve until the
1-29 first Saturday in April, 1975. Thereafter, all directors shall
1-30 serve for a period of two (2) years and until their successor has
1-31 been duly elected or appointed and qualified. No person shall be
1-32 appointed or elected as a member of the board of directors of said
1-33 hospital district unless he is a resident thereof and unless at the
1-34 time of such election or appointment he shall be more than
1-35 twenty-one (21) years of age. Each member of the board of
1-36 directors shall qualify by executing the constitutional oath of
1-37 office and shall execute a good and sufficient bond for One
1-38 Thousand Dollars ($1,000) payable to said district conditioned upon
1-39 the faithful performance of his duties, and such oaths and bonds
1-40 shall be deposited with the depository bank of the district for
1-41 safekeeping.
1-42 The board of directors shall organize by electing one (1) of
1-43 their number as president and one (1) of their number as secretary.
1-44 Any four (4) members of the board of directors shall constitute a
1-45 quorum and a concurrence of four (4) shall be sufficient in all
1-46 matters pertaining to the business of the district. All vacancies
1-47 in the office of director shall be filled for the unexpired term by
1-48 appointment of the remainder of the board of directors. In the
1-49 event the number of directors shall be reduced to less than four
1-50 (4) for any reason, the remaining directors shall immediately call
1-51 a special election to fill said vacancies, and upon failure to do
1-52 so a district court may, upon application of any voter or taxpayer
1-53 of the district, issue a mandate requiring that such election be
1-54 ordered by the remaining directors.
1-55 A regular election of directors shall be held on the first
1-56 Saturday in May <April> of each year and notice of such election
1-57 shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the
1-58 county one (1) time at least ten (10) days prior to the date of
1-59 election. Any person desiring his name to be printed on the ballot
1-60 as a candidate for director shall file a petition, signed by not
1-61 less than twenty-five (25) qualified voters asking that such name
1-62 be printed on the ballot, with the secretary of the board of
1-63 directors of the district. Such petition shall be filed with such
1-64 secretary not later than 5 p.m. of the 45th day before <at least
1-65 twenty-five (25) days prior to> the date of election.
1-66 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-67 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-68 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.
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