1-1 By: Gallego (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 3772
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
1-3 April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the Big Bend Regional Hospital District.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 7(b), Chapter 643, Acts of the 59th
1-11 Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (b) An election shall be held on the first Saturday in May
1-13 each year and the appropriate number of directors shall be elected
1-14 for four-year [two-year] terms. In every case the Directors shall
1-15 serve until the successors have been elected and qualified for the
1-16 office.
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 7B, Chapter 643, Acts of the 59th
1-18 Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, is amended by adding Subsection
1-19 (c) to read as follows:
1-20 (c) A person may not serve as a member of the board of
1-21 directors if the person is a:
1-22 (1) district employee;
1-23 (2) party to a contract with the district to perform
1-24 services for compensation; or
1-25 (3) physician who has staff privileges at a district
1-26 facility.
1-27 SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act to
1-28 Section 7(b), Chapter 643, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular
1-29 Session, 1965, does not apply to the term of a member of the Board
1-30 of Directors of the Big Bend Regional Hospital District elected in
1-31 an election held in 2000 or 2001. A director elected in an
1-32 election held in 2000 shall serve a two-year term, and a director
1-33 elected in an election held in 2001 shall serve a three-year term.
1-34 Successor directors shall serve four-year terms.
1-35 (b) The changes in law made by this Act to Section 7B,
1-36 Chapter 643, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965,
1-37 do not apply to a member of the Board of Directors of the Big Bend
1-38 Regional Hospital District serving on the board immediately before
1-39 September 1, 1999, for the remainder of that member's term. The
1-40 changes in law apply only to a member appointed or elected on or
1-41 after September 1, 1999.
1-42 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-43 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-44 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-45 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-46 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-47 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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