1-1 By: Haywood S.B. No. 613 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 8, 2001; February 12, 2001, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; March 14, 2001, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 14, 2001, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the operation of the Castro County Hospital District. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 3, Chapter 103, Acts of 1-11 the 57th Legislature, Regular Session, 1961, is amended to read as 1-12 follows: 1-13 (a) Within ten (10) days after such election is held the 1-14 Commissioners Court in such county shall convene and canvass the 1-15 returns of the election, and if a majority of the electors voting 1-16 at said election voted in favor of the proposition, the court shall 1-17 so find and declare the hospital district established and created 1-18 and appoint five (5) persons as directors of the hospital district 1-19 to serve until the first Saturday in April following the creation 1-20 and establishment of the district at which time five (5) directors 1-21 shall be elected. The three (3) directors receiving the highest 1-22 vote at such first election shall serve for two (2) years, the 1-23 other two (2) directors shall serve for one (1) year. Thereafter, 1-24 all directors of the Hansford County and Ochiltree County hospital 1-25 districts shall serve for a period of two (2) years and until their 1-26 successor has been duly elected or appointed and qualified. All 1-27 directors of the Castro County Hospital District shall serve for a 1-28 period of three (3) years and until their successor has been duly 1-29 elected or appointed and qualified, except that the directors 1-30 elected in 2000 and one of the directors elected in 2001 shall 1-31 serve for two years and their successor directors shall serve for 1-32 three-year terms. 1-33 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 1-34 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 1-35 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 1-36 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 1-37 Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-38 * * * * *