SRC-JXG S.B. 124 76(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 124
76R3585 CLG-DBy: Bivins
Intergovernmental Relations
2/17/1999
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, Texas law requires nine members to serve on the Booker Hospital
District board of directors. 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. This
bill would decrease the number of members of the Booker Hospital District
board of directors from nine to seven. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, 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 is
governed by seven members of the board of directors to be elected at large
from the Booker Hospital 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 on May 6, 2000. Requires the
four directors with the highest number of total votes to serve two-year
terms, and the three directors with the least amount of votes to serve
one-year terms.  

(c) Provides that the board of directors will continue as the district's
governing body until a majority of the directors elected on May 6, 2000,
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 May 6, 2000, take office. 

(d) Provides that service on the board of directors of the district before
May 6, 2000, does not make a person ineligible for election as a director
of the district on May 6, 2000, or a subsequent election date. 

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.