By: Bivins S.B. No. 124
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the election of the members of the board of directors
1-2 of the Booker Hospital District.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 3, Chapter 411, Acts of
1-5 the 58th Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, is amended to read as
1-6 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 of the Booker Hospital
1-21 District under this Act to be held on May 6, 2000, seven directors
1-22 shall be elected. The four directors who receive the four highest
1-23 number of total votes cast at the election shall serve two-year
1-24 terms and the three directors who receive the fifth-highest,
2-1 sixth-highest, and seventh-highest number of total votes cast at
2-2 the election shall serve one-year terms.
2-3 (c) The board of directors of the Booker Hospital District,
2-4 as it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act,
2-5 continues as the district's governing body until a majority of the
2-6 directors elected on May 6, 2000, take office, and the former law
2-7 is continued in effect for this purpose. The terms of the
2-8 directors serving immediately before the effective date of this Act
2-9 expire when a majority of the directors elected on May 6, 2000,
2-10 take office.
2-11 (d) Service on the board of directors of the Booker Hospital
2-12 District before May 6, 2000, does not make a person ineligible for
2-13 election as a director of the district on May 6, 2000, or a
2-14 subsequent election date.
2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.