1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the operation of the Castro County Hospital District. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 3, Chapter 103, Acts of 1-5 the 57th Legislature, Regular Session, 1961, is amended to read as 1-6 follows: 1-7 (a) Within ten (10) days after such election is held the 1-8 Commissioners Court in such county shall convene and canvass the 1-9 returns of the election, and if a majority of the electors voting 1-10 at said election voted in favor of the proposition, the court shall 1-11 so find and declare the hospital district established and created 1-12 and appoint five (5) persons as directors of the hospital district 1-13 to serve until the first Saturday in April following the creation 1-14 and establishment of the district at which time five (5) directors 1-15 shall be elected. The three (3) directors receiving the highest 1-16 vote at such first election shall serve for two (2) years, the 1-17 other two (2) directors shall serve for one (1) year. Thereafter, 1-18 all directors of the Hansford County and Ochiltree County hospital 1-19 districts shall serve for a period of two (2) years and until their 1-20 successor has been duly elected or appointed and qualified. All 1-21 directors of the Castro County Hospital District shall serve for a 1-22 period of three (3) years and until their successor has been duly 1-23 elected or appointed and qualified, except that the directors 1-24 elected in 2000 and one of the directors elected in 2001 shall 1-25 serve for two years and their successor directors shall serve for 2-1 three-year terms. 2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 2-3 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 2-4 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 2-5 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 2-6 Act takes effect September 1, 2001. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I hereby certify that S.B. No. 613 passed the Senate on March 22, 2001, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0, one present, not voting. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate I hereby certify that S.B. No. 613 passed the House on May 8, 2001, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, two present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Approved: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor