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.