SRC-JXG S.B. 124 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS Senate Research CenterS.B. 124 By: Bivins Intergovernmental Relations 6/30/1999 Enrolled DIGEST Currently, Texas law requires nine members to serve on the Booker Hospital District board of directors (board). Booker County is a small town with a population of approximately 1300 people. Community members who would make valuable board members have already served at one time or another. S.B. 124 will decrease the number of members of the board from nine to seven. PURPOSE As enrolled, S.B. 124 decreases the number of members of the Booker Hospital District board of directors from nine to seven. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 3(e), Chapter 411, Acts of the 58th Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, to provide that the Booker Hospital District (district) is governed by seven members of the board of directors to be elected at large from the district. Requires the term of a director to be two years, and three directors, rather than five, to be elected in odd numbered years. Deletes text providing the names of the board of directors. SECTION 2. (a) Effective date: September 1, 1999. (b) Requires seven directors to be elected, at the election for directors of the district under this Act to be held on the first May uniform election date. Requires the four directors who receive the highest number of total votes cast at the election to serve two-year terms and the three directors who receive the fifth-highest, sixth highest, and seventh-highest number of total votes cast at the election to serve one-year terms. (c) Provides that the board of the district, as it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, continues as the district's governing body until a majority of the directors elected on the first May uniform election date take office, and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose. Provides that the terms of the directors serving immediately before the effective date of this Act expire when a majority of the directors elected on the first May uniform election date take office. (d) Provides that service on the board of the district before the first May uniform election date does not make a person ineligible for election as a director of the district on the first May uniform election date or a subsequent election date. SECTION 3. Emergency clause.