1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the Big Bend Regional Hospital District.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 7(b), Chapter 643, Acts of the 59th
 1-5     Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  An election shall be held on the first Saturday in May
 1-7     each year and the appropriate number of directors shall be elected
 1-8     for four-year [two-year] terms.  In every case the Directors shall
 1-9     serve until the successors have been elected and qualified for the
1-10     office.
1-11           SECTION 2.  Section 7B, Chapter 643, Acts of the 59th
1-12     Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, is amended by adding Subsection
1-13     (c) to read as follows:
1-14           (c)  A person may not serve as a member of the board of
1-15     directors if the person is a:
1-16                 (1)  district employee;
1-17                 (2)  party to a contract with the district to perform
1-18     services for compensation; or
1-19                 (3)  physician who has staff privileges at a district
1-20     facility.
1-21           SECTION 3.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act to
1-22     Section 7(b), Chapter 643, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular
1-23     Session, 1965, does not apply to the term of a member of the Board
1-24     of Directors of the Big Bend Regional Hospital District elected in
 2-1     an election held in 2000 or 2001.  A director elected in an
 2-2     election held in 2000 shall serve a two-year term, and a director
 2-3     elected in an election held in 2001 shall serve a three-year term.
 2-4     Successor directors shall serve four-year terms.
 2-5           (b)  The changes in law made by this Act to Section 7B,
 2-6     Chapter 643, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965,
 2-7     do not apply to a member of the Board of Directors of the Big Bend
 2-8     Regional Hospital District serving on the board immediately before
 2-9     September 1, 1999, for the remainder of that member's term.  The
2-10     changes in law apply only to a member appointed or elected on or
2-11     after September 1, 1999.
2-12           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-13           SECTION 5.  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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3772 was passed by the House on April
         23, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3772 was passed by the Senate on May
         17, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor