By: Heflin (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 118
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2009;
  May 12, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Administration; May 22, 2009, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 22, 2009, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the grounds for removal of a member of the board of
  directors of the Lynn County Hospital District.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 4A(a), Chapter 66, Acts of the 60th
  Legislature, Regular Session, 1967, is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  It is a ground for removal from the board of directors
  that a member:
               (1)  is absent from more than half [three-fourths] of
  the regularly scheduled board meetings that the member is eligible
  to attend during a calendar year without an excuse approved by a
  majority vote of the board; or
               (2)  fails to timely pay a federal, state, or local tax,
  including an ad valorem tax.
         SECTION 2.  Section 1054.0565(a), Special District Local
  Laws Code, as effective September 1, 2009, is amended to read as
  follows:
         (a)  It is a ground for removal from the board that a
  director:
               (1)  is absent from more than half [three-fourths] of
  the regularly scheduled board meetings that the director is
  eligible to attend during a calendar year without an excuse
  approved by a majority vote of the board; or
               (2)  fails to timely pay a federal, state, or local tax,
  including an ad valorem tax.
         SECTION 3.  (a)  Section 1 of this Act takes effect only if
  the Act of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, relating to
  nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in existing codes does
  not become law.  If the Act of the 81st Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2009, relating to nonsubstantive additions to and
  corrections in existing codes becomes law, Section 1 of this Act has
  no effect.
         (b)  Section 2 of this Act takes effect only if the Act of the
  81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, relating to
  nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in existing codes
  becomes law.  If the Act of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session,
  2009, relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in
  existing codes does not become law, Section 2 of this Act has no
  effect.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
 
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