By Rabuck                                             H.B. No. 3198
       74R9301 CLG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the board of directors of the Montgomery County
    1-3  Hospital District.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 4(a), Chapter 258, Acts of the 65th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1977, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  The district is governed by a board of seven directors.
    1-8  Three of the directors shall be elected at large from the entire
    1-9  district, and the remaining four directors each shall be elected
   1-10  from a different commissioner's precinct in the district, and each
   1-11  shall be a resident of the precinct he represents.  Candidates to
   1-12  represent the district at large shall run by position.  A qualified
   1-13  elector is entitled to vote for the directors to be elected at
   1-14  large and for the director to be elected from the precinct in which
   1-15  the elector resides.  Directors shall serve for terms of four years
   1-16  expiring on the second Tuesday in June.  No person may be appointed
   1-17  or elected as a member of the board of directors of the hospital
   1-18  district unless he is a resident of the district and a qualified
   1-19  elector and unless at the time of such election or appointment he
   1-20  shall be more than 21 years of age.  No person may be appointed or
   1-21  elected as a director of the hospital district if he holds another
   1-22  appointed or elected public office of honor, trust, or profit.  A
   1-23  person holding another public office of honor, trust, or profit who
   1-24  seeks to be appointed or elected a director automatically vacates
    2-1  the first office.  <No physician who has hospital privileges in the
    2-2  district may be a director; provided the chief of staff may serve
    2-3  as an ex officio director without the right to vote as a member of
    2-4  the board.>  Each member of the board of directors shall serve
    2-5  without compensation and shall qualify by executing the
    2-6  constitutional oath of office and shall execute a good and
    2-7  sufficient bond for $1,000 payable to the district conditioned upon
    2-8  the faithful performance of his duties, and the bonds shall be
    2-9  deposited with the depository bank of the district for safekeeping.
   2-10        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-16  passage, and it is so enacted.