1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the Gonzales County Hospital District.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. The name of the Gonzales County Hospital District
1-5 is changed to Gonzales Healthcare Systems.
1-6 SECTION 2. Section 1, Chapter 191, Acts of the 64th
1-7 Legislature, Regular Session, 1975, is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 1. In accordance with the provisions of Article IX,
1-9 Section 9, of the Texas Constitution, this Act authorizes the
1-10 creation, establishment, administration, maintenance, operation,
1-11 and financing of a hospital district within this state, the
1-12 boundaries of which shall include all of the land or territory in
1-13 Gonzales County, Texas, except those portions of the land or
1-14 territory comprising Nixon Hospital District of Gonzales and Wilson
1-15 Counties, Texas; Cuero Hospital District of DeWitt County, Texas;
1-16 Yoakum Hospital District; and Shiner Independent School District of
1-17 Shiner and Lavaca Counties, Texas, which lie within Gonzales
1-18 County, Texas (as each district existed on January 1, 1975), to be
1-19 known as Gonzales Healthcare Systems [County Hospital District]
1-20 with such rights, powers, and duties as provided in this Act.
1-21 SECTION 3. Section 4(c), Chapter 191, Acts of the 64th
1-22 Legislature, Regular Session, 1975, is amended to read as follows:
1-23 (c) At such time as the creation of the district is approved
1-24 and the returns of the election officially canvassed, the persons
2-1 then serving as temporary directors shall become permanent
2-2 directors of the district, shall execute the constitutional oath of
2-3 office as such, and shall divide themselves into two classes,
2-4 namely: class one, five persons to serve until the first Saturday
2-5 in April next following the election wherein the creation of said
2-6 district is approved, and class two, four persons to serve until
2-7 the first Saturday in April of the next succeeding year.
2-8 Successors of class one shall be elected by vote of the qualified
2-9 electors of the entire district for two-year terms. Successors of
2-10 class two shall be elected by the qualified electors of the
2-11 commissioner's precinct to be represented, with one director to be
2-12 elected from each precinct, for two-year terms. Notice of each
2-13 election shall be published in a newspaper or newspapers which
2-14 individually or collectively provide general circulation in the
2-15 district one time at least 45 [30] days prior to the date of the
2-16 election. Any person desiring to have his name printed on the
2-17 ballot as a candidate for director shall file a petition signed by
2-18 at least 10 electors asking that such name be printed on the ballot
2-19 with the secretary of the board of directors. The petition shall
2-20 be filed with the secretary at least 45 [30] days prior to the date
2-21 of the election. Vacancies in office shall be filled for the
2-22 unexpired term by the remainder of the board of directors.
2-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-2 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3566 was passed by the House on May
7, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3566 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor