By Chavez H.B. No. 2514 75R5320 CLG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the terms of the board of hospital managers of the El 1-3 Paso County 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 by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) The members of the board of managers of the El Paso 1-8 County Hospital District serve staggered four-year terms, with as 1-9 near as possible to one-half of the members' terms expiring in each 1-10 odd-numbered year. 1-11 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-12 (b) The members of the board of managers of the El Paso 1-13 County Hospital District serving on the effective date of this Act 1-14 shall draw lots to determine the members, the number of whom must 1-15 be as near as possible to one-half of the total number of members, 1-16 who shall serve terms that expire in 2001 and the members, the 1-17 number of whom must be as near as possible to one-half of the total 1-18 number of members, who shall serve terms that expire in 1999. 1-19 (c) At the time the terms of the board of managers of the El 1-20 Paso County Hospital District are determined under Subsection (b) 1-21 of this section, the commissioners court shall establish the 1-22 specific date on which the terms of members of the board of 1-23 managers shall expire each odd-numbered year. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.