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