By Chisum H.B. No. 1922
76R3585 CLG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the election of the members of the board of directors
1-3 of the Booker Hospital District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3(e), Chapter 411, Acts of the 58th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (e) The District is governed by a board of seven directors
1-8 to be elected at large from the entire District [Five of the
1-9 directors of the District, Russell Sell, Edgar Cook, Ben Boren, Ed
1-10 S. Merydith and Dean Carnes (the five directors receiving the
1-11 largest number of votes at the directors' election) shall continue
1-12 to serve as directors of the District until the first Saturday in
1-13 April, 1975; the remaining four directors, Peggy Duke, Glen Lemon,
1-14 J. Dennis Guffy and Donald Kerns (elected as directors at the
1-15 aforesaid election) shall serve until the first Saturday in April,
1-16 1974]. The term of a director shall be two years, and three [five]
1-17 directors shall be elected in odd numbered years and four shall be
1-18 elected in even numbered years.
1-19 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20 (b) At the election for directors under this Act to be held
1-21 on May 6, 2000, seven directors shall be elected. The four
1-22 directors who receive the four highest number of total votes cast
1-23 at the election shall serve two-year terms and the three directors
1-24 who receive the fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-highest number of total
2-1 votes cast at the election shall serve one-year terms.
2-2 (c) The board of directors, as it existed immediately before
2-3 the effective date of this Act, continues as the district's
2-4 governing body until a majority of the directors elected on May 6,
2-5 2000, take office, and the former law is continued in effect for
2-6 this purpose. The terms of the directors serving immediately
2-7 before the effective date of this Act expire when a majority of the
2-8 directors elected on May 6, 2000, take office.
2-9 (d) Service on the board of directors of the district before
2-10 May 6, 2000, does not make a person ineligible for election as a
2-11 director of the district on May 6, 2000, or a subsequent election
2-12 date.
2-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.