H.B. No. 1818 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the terms of the board of managers of the Nueces County 1-3 Hospital District. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 281.022, Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 281.022. Term. (a) A board member serves a two-year 1-8 term, except that the commissioners court may make some initial 1-9 appointments for one year in order to stagger terms. 1-10 (b) The members of the board of hospital managers of the 1-11 Nueces County Hospital District serve staggered three-year terms, 1-12 with as near as possible to one-third of the members' terms 1-13 expiring each year. 1-14 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-15 (b) The members of the board of hospital managers of the 1-16 Nueces County Hospital District serving on the effective date of 1-17 this Act may draw lots or use another method to determine the 1-18 members, the number of whom must be as near as possible to 1-19 one-third of the total number of members, who shall serve terms 1-20 that expire in 1998, the members, the number of whom must be as 1-21 near as possible to one-third of the total number of members, who 1-22 shall serve terms that expire in 1997, and the members, the number 1-23 of whom must be as near as possible to one-third of the total 2-1 number of members, who shall serve terms that expire in 1996. 2-2 (c) At the time the terms of the board of managers of the 2-3 Nueces County Hospital District are determined under Subsection (b) 2-4 of this section, the commissioners court shall establish the 2-5 specific date on which the terms of members of the board of 2-6 managers shall expire each year. 2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.