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78R7257 EMT-F

By:  Homer                                                        H.B. No. 3604



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the board of directors of the Hopkins County Hospital 
District. 
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 3, Chapter 43, Acts of the 57th 
Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1961, is amended to read as 
follows:
	Sec. 3.  (a)  The board of directors consists of seven (7) 
directors who serve staggered three-year terms.  The directors 
shall be elected by place. A director shall continue to serve until 
a successor has been duly elected or appointed and qualified.  No 
person shall be appointed or elected as a member of the board of 
directors of said hospital district unless he is a resident and a 
qualified voter thereof and unless at the time of such election or 
appointment he shall be more than twenty-one (21) years of age.  An 
individual who is an employee of the Hopkins County Hospital 
District may not serve as a director of the [that] district.
	(b)  A person who is not a physician, dentist, or podiatrist 
who is a member of the medical staff at Hopkins County Memorial 
Hospital is eligible to be a candidate for or to serve as a director 
for any place on the board.  A person who is a physician, dentist, or 
podiatrist who is a member of the medical staff at Hopkins County 
Memorial Hospital is eligible to be a candidate for or to serve as a 
director for places 1, 2, and 3 only.
	(c)  Each member of the board of directors shall qualify by 
executing the constitutional oath of office and shall execute a 
good and sufficient bond for One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) payable 
to said district conditioned upon the faithful performance of his 
duties, and such oaths and bonds shall be deposited with the 
depository bank of the district for safekeeping.
	(d)  The board of directors shall elect a president, a vice 
president, and a secretary.  A majority of the full membership of 
the board of directors shall constitute a quorum and a concurrence 
of a majority shall be sufficient in all matters pertaining to the 
business of the district.  All vacancies in the office of director 
shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment of the 
remainder of the board of directors.  In the event the number of 
directors shall be reduced to less than the number that constitutes 
a majority for any reason, the remaining directors shall 
immediately call a special election to fill said vacancies, and 
upon failure to do so a district court may, upon application of any 
voter or taxpayer of the district, issue a mandate requiring that 
such election be ordered by the remaining directors.
	(e)  A regular election of directors shall be held on the 
first Saturday in May of each year and notice of such election shall 
be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county one 
(1) time at least ten (10) days prior to the date of election.  Any 
person desiring his name to be printed on the ballot as a candidate 
for director shall file an application with the secretary of the 
board of directors of the district.  Such application shall be filed 
with such secretary at least forty-five (45) days prior to the date 
of election and shall designate the place number for which the 
person is a candidate for director.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.