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