By: Hope, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Williams) H.B. No. 1251
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 19, 2003;
May 20, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on
Administration; May 23, 2003, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 23, 2003, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to calling an election to dissolve the Montgomery County
Hospital District.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 23B(a) and (d), Chapter 258, Acts of the
65th Legislature, Regular Session, 1977, are amended to read as
follows:
(a) The board of directors shall order an election on the
question of dissolving the district and disposing of the district's
assets and obligations if the board of directors receives a
petition requesting an election that is signed by a number of
residents of the district equal to at least 15 percent of the total
vote received by all candidates for governor in the most recent
gubernatorial general election [registered voters] in the district
that occurs more than 30 days before the date the petition is
submitted to the board. If a petition submitted under this
subsection does not contain the necessary number of valid
signatures, a petition submitted under this subsection before the
third anniversary of the date the invalid petition was submitted
has no effect.
(d) If a majority of the votes in the election favor
dissolution, the board of directors shall find that the district is
dissolved. If less than a majority of the votes in the election [do
not] favor dissolution, the board of directors shall continue to
administer the district and another election on the question of
dissolution may not be held before the third [fourth] anniversary
of the most recent election to dissolve the district.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2004, and
applies only to a petition requesting the dissolution of the
district filed on or after that date.
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