1-1 By: Rabuck (Senate Sponsor - Galloway) H.B. No. 3198
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
1-3 May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 1995, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 1995, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the board of directors of the Montgomery County
1-10 Hospital District.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 4(a), Chapter 258, Acts of the 65th
1-13 Legislature, Regular Session, 1977, is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (a) The district is governed by a board of seven directors.
1-15 Three of the directors shall be elected at large from the entire
1-16 district, and the remaining four directors each shall be elected
1-17 from a different commissioner's precinct in the district, and each
1-18 shall be a resident of the precinct he represents. Candidates to
1-19 represent the district at large shall run by position. A qualified
1-20 elector is entitled to vote for the directors to be elected at
1-21 large and for the director to be elected from the precinct in which
1-22 the elector resides. Directors shall serve for terms of four years
1-23 expiring on the second Tuesday in June. No person may be appointed
1-24 or elected as a member of the board of directors of the hospital
1-25 district unless he is a resident of the district and a qualified
1-26 elector and unless at the time of such election or appointment he
1-27 shall be more than 21 years of age. No person may be appointed or
1-28 elected as a director of the hospital district if he holds another
1-29 appointed or elected public office of honor, trust, or profit. A
1-30 person holding another public office of honor, trust, or profit who
1-31 seeks to be appointed or elected a director automatically vacates
1-32 the first office. <No physician who has hospital privileges in the
1-33 district may be a director; provided the chief of staff may serve
1-34 as an ex officio director without the right to vote as a member of
1-35 the board.> Each member of the board of directors shall serve
1-36 without compensation and shall qualify by executing the
1-37 constitutional oath of office and shall execute a good and
1-38 sufficient bond for $1,000 payable to the district conditioned upon
1-39 the faithful performance of his duties, and the bonds shall be
1-40 deposited with the depository bank of the district for safekeeping.
1-41 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-42 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-46 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-47 passage, and it is so enacted.
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