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.
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