1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to contracts executed by and the election of the board of
1-3 directors of the Val Verde County Hospital District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4A(c), Chapter 658, Acts of the 64th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1975, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) A declaration of write-in candidacy must be filed with
1-8 the secretary of the board of directors not later than 5 p.m. of
1-9 the 35th [45th] day before election day. However, if a candidate
1-10 whose name is to appear on the ballot dies or is declared
1-11 ineligible after the 38th [48th] day before election day, a
1-12 declaration of write-in candidacy for the office sought by the
1-13 deceased or ineligible candidate may be filed not later than 5 p.m.
1-14 of the 32nd [42nd] day before election day.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 11, Chapter 658, Acts of the 64th
1-16 Legislature, Regular Session, 1975, is amended to read as follows:
1-17 Sec. 11. The board of directors of such district shall have
1-18 the power to prescribe the method and manner of making purchases
1-19 and expenditures by and for such hospital district, and shall also
1-20 be authorized to prescribe all accounting and control procedures.
1-21 All contracts for construction involving the expenditure of more
1-22 than $15,000 may be made only after advertising in the manner
1-23 provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 271, Local Government Code, or
1-24 all contracts for purchases involving the expenditure of more than
2-1 $15,000 [$5,000] may be made only after advertising in the manner
2-2 provided by Subchapter C, Chapter 262 [252], Local Government Code.
2-3 The provisions of Chapter 2253, Government Code, relating to
2-4 performance and payment bonds, shall apply to construction
2-5 contracts let by the district. The district may acquire equipment
2-6 for use in its hospital system and mortgage or pledge the property
2-7 so acquired as security for the payment of the purchase price, but
2-8 any such contract shall provide for the entire obligation of the
2-9 district to be retired within five years from the date of the
2-10 contract. Except as permitted in the preceding sentence and as
2-11 permitted by Sections 7 and 8 of this Act, the district may incur
2-12 no obligation payable from any revenues of the district, taxes or
2-13 otherwise, except those on hand or to be on hand within the then
2-14 current and following fiscal year of the district.
2-15 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-16 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1374 was passed by the House on May
8, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1374 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor