1-1     By:  Bivins                                            S.B. No. 124
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 6, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; February 25, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 25, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the election of the members of the board of directors
 1-9     of the Booker Hospital District.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 3, Chapter 411, Acts of
1-12     the 58th Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, is amended to read as
1-13     follows:
1-14           (e)  The District is governed by a board of seven directors
1-15     to be elected at large from the entire District [Five of the
1-16     directors of the District, Russell Sell, Edgar Cook, Ben Boren, Ed
1-17     S. Merydith and Dean Carnes (the five directors receiving the
1-18     largest number of votes at the directors' election) shall continue
1-19     to serve as directors of the District until the first Saturday in
1-20     April, 1975; the remaining four directors, Peggy Duke, Glen Lemon,
1-21     J. Dennis Guffy and Donald Kerns (elected as directors at the
1-22     aforesaid election) shall serve until the first Saturday in April,
1-23     1974].  The term of a director shall be two years, and three [five]
1-24     directors shall be elected in odd numbered years and four shall be
1-25     elected in even numbered years.
1-26           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27           (b)  At the election for directors of the Booker Hospital
1-28     District under this Act to be held on May  6, 2000, seven directors
1-29     shall be elected.  The four directors who receive the four highest
1-30     number of total votes cast at the election shall serve two-year
1-31     terms and the three directors who receive the fifth-highest,
1-32     sixth-highest, and seventh-highest number of total votes cast at
1-33     the election shall serve one-year terms.
1-34           (c)  The board of directors of the Booker Hospital District,
1-35     as it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act,
1-36     continues as the district's governing body until a majority of the
1-37     directors elected on May 6, 2000, take office, and the former law
1-38     is continued in effect for this purpose.  The terms of the
1-39     directors serving immediately before the effective date of this Act
1-40     expire when a majority of the directors elected on May 6, 2000,
1-41     take office.
1-42           (d)  Service on the board of directors of the Booker Hospital
1-43     District before May 6, 2000, does not make a person ineligible for
1-44     election as a director of the district on May 6, 2000, or a
1-45     subsequent election date.
1-46           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-47     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-48     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-49     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-50     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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