1-1 By: Gallego (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 1374
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to contracts executed by and the election of the board of
1-10 directors of the Val Verde County Hospital District.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 4A(c), Chapter 658, Acts of the 64th
1-13 Legislature, Regular Session, 1975, is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (c) A declaration of write-in candidacy must be filed with
1-15 the secretary of the board of directors not later than 5 p.m. of
1-16 the 35th [45th] day before election day. However, if a candidate
1-17 whose name is to appear on the ballot dies or is declared
1-18 ineligible after the 38th [48th] day before election day, a
1-19 declaration of write-in candidacy for the office sought by the
1-20 deceased or ineligible candidate may be filed not later than 5 p.m.
1-21 of the 32nd [42nd] day before election day.
1-22 SECTION 2. Section 11, Chapter 658, Acts of the 64th
1-23 Legislature, Regular Session, 1975, is amended to read as follows:
1-24 Sec. 11. The board of directors of such district shall have
1-25 the power to prescribe the method and manner of making purchases
1-26 and expenditures by and for such hospital district, and shall also
1-27 be authorized to prescribe all accounting and control procedures.
1-28 All contracts for construction involving the expenditure of more
1-29 than $15,000 may be made only after advertising in the manner
1-30 provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 271, Local Government Code, or
1-31 all contracts for purchases involving the expenditure of more than
1-32 $15,000 [$5,000] may be made only after advertising in the manner
1-33 provided by Subchapter C, Chapter 262 [252], Local Government Code.
1-34 The provisions of Chapter 2253, Government Code, relating to
1-35 performance and payment bonds, shall apply to construction
1-36 contracts let by the district. The district may acquire equipment
1-37 for use in its hospital system and mortgage or pledge the property
1-38 so acquired as security for the payment of the purchase price, but
1-39 any such contract shall provide for the entire obligation of the
1-40 district to be retired within five years from the date of the
1-41 contract. Except as permitted in the preceding sentence and as
1-42 permitted by Sections 7 and 8 of this Act, the district may incur
1-43 no obligation payable from any revenues of the district, taxes or
1-44 otherwise, except those on hand or to be on hand within the then
1-45 current and following fiscal year of the district.
1-46 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-47 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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