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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