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