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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