By:  Ogden                                             S.B. No. 189
                                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 Burleson County Hospital District.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 8, Chapter 726, Acts of the 65th
 1-5     Legislature, Regular Session, 1977, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 8.  The district shall be governed by a board of 11
 1-7     directors.  To be qualified to serve as a director a person shall
 1-8     be not less than 21 years old and a qualified voter within the
 1-9     district.  After approval by the qualified voters of the district
1-10     of the proposition set forth in Section 7 of this Act, in the
1-11     manner therein provided, an election shall be held in the district
1-12     [on the first Saturday of each April] for the election of
1-13     directors.  In even-numbered years the five directors who shall
1-14     occupy the even-numbered places shall be elected to serve two
1-15     years.  In odd-numbered years the six directors who shall occupy
1-16     the odd-numbered places shall be elected to serve two years.
1-17     Thereafter, in [on the first Saturday in April of] each following
1-18     year such elections shall be held in continuing sequence in
1-19     accordance with Chapter 41, Election Code.  Except for the
1-20     temporary directors herein appointed, any candidate for the office
1-21     of director shall file with the secretary of the board, or any
1-22     agent who may be designated by the board, his application to have
1-23     his name printed on the ballot.  Such application shall be signed
1-24     by a candidate, or by 10 qualified voters of the district, and must
 2-1     [shall] be filed not later than 5 p.m. of the 45th day before
 2-2     election day [at least 15 days before the election].  A vacancy in
 2-3     the office of director or any office on the board shall be promptly
 2-4     filled by appointment of the board for the unexpired term.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.