BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 1237 |
By: Keffer |
County Affairs |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Observers note that the Eastland Memorial Hospital District is currently the only hospital servicing Eastland County and that there is a need to provide for expansion of the district's territory and to amend notice requirements regarding an election of district directors. C.S.H.B. 1237 seeks to address these issues by authorizing the district's expansion and amending election notice requirements.
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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.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 1237 amends the Special District Local Laws Code to require notice of an election of directors of the Eastland Memorial Hospital District to be published in a newspaper with general circulation in the district in accordance with Election Code provisions relating to methods of giving notice of an election, rather than to require notice of an election of such directors to be published one time in such a newspaper not earlier than 30 days or later than 10 days before the election date.
C.S.H.B. 1237 authorizes the Eastland Memorial Hospital District to expand its territory in the manner provided by Health and Safety Code provisions relating to the expansion of the territory of a hospital district created by voter approval. The bill requires the district's board of directors to hold an election regarding such expansion on the first uniform election date that allows the board sufficient time to comply with applicable requirements of law.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2013.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 1237 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and highlighted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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