1-1  By:  Luna (Senate Sponsor - Truan)                    H.B. No. 1818
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1995;
    1-3  April 24, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 3, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the terms of the board of managers of the Nueces County
    1-9  Hospital District.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 281.022, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 281.022.  Term.  (a)  A board member serves a two-year
   1-14  term, except that the commissioners court may make some initial
   1-15  appointments for one year in order to stagger terms.
   1-16        (b)  The members of the board of hospital managers of the
   1-17  Nueces County Hospital District serve staggered three-year terms,
   1-18  with as near as possible to one-third of the members' terms
   1-19  expiring each year.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        (b)  The members of the board of hospital managers of the
   1-22  Nueces County Hospital District serving on the effective date of
   1-23  this Act may draw lots or use another method to determine the
   1-24  members, the number of whom must be as near as possible to
   1-25  one-third of the total number of members, who shall serve terms
   1-26  that expire in 1998, the members, the number of whom must be as
   1-27  near as possible to one-third of the total number of members, who
   1-28  shall serve terms that expire in 1997, and the members, the number
   1-29  of whom must be as near as possible to one-third of the total
   1-30  number of members, who shall serve terms that expire in 1996.
   1-31        (c)  At the time the terms of the board of managers of the
   1-32  Nueces County Hospital District are determined under Subsection (b)
   1-33  of this section, the commissioners court shall establish the
   1-34  specific date on which the terms of members of the board of
   1-35  managers shall expire each year.
   1-36        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-37  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-38  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-39  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-40  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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