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.