1-1 By: Ogden S.B. No. 189
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 19, 1999; January 28, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; February 18, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 18, 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 Burleson County Hospital District.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 8, Chapter 726, Acts of the 65th
1-12 Legislature, Regular Session, 1977, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 8. The district shall be governed by a board of 11
1-14 directors. To be qualified to serve as a director a person shall
1-15 be not less than 21 years old and a qualified voter within the
1-16 district. After approval by the qualified voters of the district
1-17 of the proposition set forth in Section 7 of this Act, in the
1-18 manner therein provided, an election shall be held in the district
1-19 [on the first Saturday of each April] for the election of
1-20 directors. In even-numbered years the five directors who shall
1-21 occupy the even-numbered places shall be elected to serve two
1-22 years. In odd-numbered years the six directors who shall occupy
1-23 the odd-numbered places shall be elected to serve two years.
1-24 Thereafter, in [on the first Saturday in April of] each following
1-25 year such elections shall be held in continuing sequence in
1-26 accordance with Chapter 41, Election Code. Except for the
1-27 temporary directors herein appointed, any candidate for the office
1-28 of director shall file with the secretary of the board, or any
1-29 agent who may be designated by the board, his application to have
1-30 his name printed on the ballot. Such application shall be signed
1-31 by a candidate, or by 10 qualified voters of the district, and must
1-32 [shall] be filed not later than 5 p.m. of the 45th day before
1-33 election day [at least 15 days before the election]. A vacancy in
1-34 the office of director or any office on the board shall be promptly
1-35 filled by appointment of the board for the unexpired term.
1-36 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-37 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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