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 the first May uniform
1-22 election date, seven directors shall be elected. The four
1-23 directors who receive the four highest number of total votes cast
1-24 at the election shall serve two-year terms and the three directors
2-1 who receive the fifth-highest, sixth-highest, and seventh-highest
2-2 number of total votes cast at the election shall serve one-year
2-3 terms.
2-4 (c) The board of directors of the Booker Hospital District,
2-5 as it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act,
2-6 continues as the district's governing body until a majority of the
2-7 directors elected on the first May uniform election date take
2-8 office, and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
2-9 The terms of the directors serving immediately before the effective
2-10 date of this Act expire when a majority of the directors elected on
2-11 the first May uniform election date take office.
2-12 (d) Service on the board of directors of the Booker Hospital
2-13 District before the first May uniform election date does not make a
2-14 person ineligible for election as a director of the district on the
2-15 first May uniform election date or a subsequent election date.
2-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20 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 hereby certify that S.B. No. 124 passed the Senate on
March 18, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on April 30, 1999, by a
viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 124 passed the House, with
amendment, on April 23, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor