By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 3772
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the board of directors of the Big Bend Regional
 1-3     Hospital District.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 7(b), Chapter 643, Acts of the 59th
 1-6     Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  An election shall be held on the first Saturday in May
 1-8     each year and the appropriate number of directors shall be elected
 1-9     for four-year [two-year] terms in the following manner:
1-10                 (1)  In an election held in the year 2000 for the
1-11     election of directors serving a term that expires on that year, the
1-12     term shall be a two-year term;
1-13                 (2)  In an election held in the year 2001 for the
1-14     election of directors serving a term that expires on that year, the
1-15     term shall be a three-year term; and
1-16                 (3)  Every election for a member of the board of
1-17     directors held after 2001 shall be for a term of four-years.  In
1-18     every case the directors shall serve until the successors have been
1-19     elected and qualified for the office.
1-20           SECTION 2.  Section 7B, Chapter 643, Acts of the 59th
1-21     Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, is amended by adding Subsection
 2-1     (c) to read as follows:
 2-2           (c)  A person may not serve on the board of directors if the
 2-3     person:
 2-4                 (1)  is an employee of the district; or
 2-5                 (2)  is a party to a contract with the district to
 2-6     perform services for compensation; or
 2-7                 (3)  is a physician who retains staff privileges at a
 2-8     district facility.
 2-9           SECTION 3.  The changes in law made by this Act to Sections
2-10     7(b) and 7B, Chapter 643, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular
2-11     Session, 1965, do not apply to a member of the board of directors
2-12     of the Big Bend Regional Hospital District serving on the board
2-13     immediately before September 1, 1999, for the remainder of that
2-14     member's term.  The changes in law apply only to a member elected
2-15     on or after September 1, 1999.
2-16           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-17           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.