BILL ANALYSIS

 

 

                                                                                                                                            S.B. 1769

                                                                                                                                            By: Harris

                                                                                                                                    County Affairs

                                                                                                       Committee Report (Unamended)

 

 

 

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

 

Currently, hospital district administrators in counties of at least 190,000 people serve two-year terms and at the will of the hospital district board. 

 

As proposed, S.B. 1769 increases the term from two years to four years.  Administrators will still serve at the will of the hospital district board. 

 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

 

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. 

 

ANALYSIS

 

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 281.026(b), Health and Safety Code, to provide that the administrator for a hospital district serves at the will of the board of hospital mangers of the district for terms not more than four, rather than two, years.

 

SECTION 2.  Effective date

 

EFFECTIVE DATE

 

Upon passage, or, if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act takes effect September 1, 2005.