1-1 By: Rhodes (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 3566
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1997;
1-3 May 9, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 15, 1997, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the Gonzales County Hospital District.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. The name of the Gonzales County Hospital District
1-12 is changed to Gonzales Healthcare Systems.
1-13 SECTION 2. Section 1, Chapter 191, Acts of the 64th
1-14 Legislature, Regular Session, 1975, is amended to read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 1. In accordance with the provisions of Article IX,
1-16 Section 9, of the Texas Constitution, this Act authorizes the
1-17 creation, establishment, administration, maintenance, operation,
1-18 and financing of a hospital district within this state, the
1-19 boundaries of which shall include all of the land or territory in
1-20 Gonzales County, Texas, except those portions of the land or
1-21 territory comprising Nixon Hospital District of Gonzales and Wilson
1-22 Counties, Texas; Cuero Hospital District of DeWitt County, Texas;
1-23 Yoakum Hospital District; and Shiner Independent School District of
1-24 Shiner and Lavaca Counties, Texas, which lie within Gonzales
1-25 County, Texas (as each district existed on January 1, 1975), to be
1-26 known as Gonzales Healthcare Systems [County Hospital District]
1-27 with such rights, powers, and duties as provided in this Act.
1-28 SECTION 3. Section 4(c), Chapter 191, Acts of the 64th
1-29 Legislature, Regular Session, 1975, is amended to read as follows:
1-30 (c) At such time as the creation of the district is approved
1-31 and the returns of the election officially canvassed, the persons
1-32 then serving as temporary directors shall become permanent
1-33 directors of the district, shall execute the constitutional oath of
1-34 office as such, and shall divide themselves into two classes,
1-35 namely: class one, five persons to serve until the first Saturday
1-36 in April next following the election wherein the creation of said
1-37 district is approved, and class two, four persons to serve until
1-38 the first Saturday in April of the next succeeding year.
1-39 Successors of class one shall be elected by vote of the qualified
1-40 electors of the entire district for two-year terms. Successors of
1-41 class two shall be elected by the qualified electors of the
1-42 commissioner's precinct to be represented, with one director to be
1-43 elected from each precinct, for two-year terms. Notice of each
1-44 election shall be published in a newspaper or newspapers which
1-45 individually or collectively provide general circulation in the
1-46 district one time at least 45 [30] days prior to the date of the
1-47 election. Any person desiring to have his name printed on the
1-48 ballot as a candidate for director shall file a petition signed by
1-49 at least 10 electors asking that such name be printed on the ballot
1-50 with the secretary of the board of directors. The petition shall
1-51 be filed with the secretary at least 45 [30] days prior to the date
1-52 of the election. Vacancies in office shall be filled for the
1-53 unexpired term by the remainder of the board of directors.
1-54 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-55 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-56 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-57 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-58 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-59 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-60 passage, and it is so enacted.
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