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        |  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
      
        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to the election and authority of the board of directors of | 
      
        |  | the McCulloch County Hospital District. | 
      
        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Section 1059.052, Special District Local Laws | 
      
        |  | Code, is amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | Sec. 1059.052.  NOTICE OF ELECTION.  Notice [ Not earlier  | 
      
        |  | than 30 days or later than 10 days before the date] of an election of | 
      
        |  | directors[ , notice of the election] shall be published in | 
      
        |  | accordance with Section 4.003, Election Code, [ one time] in a | 
      
        |  | newspaper with general circulation in the district. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 2.  Section 1059.107, Special District Local Laws | 
      
        |  | Code, is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (f)  The board by resolution may order the lease of a | 
      
        |  | hospital or other facility owned by the district to any person.  The | 
      
        |  | resolution must include a finding by the board that the lease of the | 
      
        |  | hospital or facility is in the best interest of the residents of the | 
      
        |  | district. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 3.  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, 2013. |