By Uher                                               H.B. No. 3599

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the auditor for the Matagorda County Hospital District.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 16, Chapter 41, Acts of the 59th

 1-5     Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 16.   The Board of Managers shall employ a competent

 1-7     disinterested expert public accountant as the auditor for the

 1-8     District.  The auditor [Matagorda County Auditor shall be the

 1-9     auditor for said District, and he] shall make such reports and

1-10     perform such accounting services as may be reasonably incident or

1-11     necessary to the proper conduct of the business of said District.

1-12     The compensation of said auditor shall be as determined by said

1-13     District's Board of Hospital Managers, taking into consideration

1-14     the amount and value of such services performed by said auditor for

1-15     said District.

1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.