By Luna H.B. No. 1818 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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 four-year terms, 1-12 with as near as possible to one-half of the members' terms expiring 1-13 in each odd-numbered 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 shall draw lots to determine the members, the number of 1-18 whom must be as near as possible to half of the total number of 1-19 members, who may serve terms that expire in 1999 and the members, 1-20 the number of whom must be as near as possible to half of the total 1-21 number of members, who shall serve terms that expire in 1997. 1-22 (c) At the time the terms of the board of managers of the 1-23 Nueces County Hospital District are determined under Subsection (b) 2-1 of this section, the commissioners court shall establish the 2-2 specific date on which the terms of members of the board of 2-3 managers shall expire each odd-numbered year. 2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.