By: Bell, Keough, Metcalf (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) H.B. No. 389
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015;
  April 23, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Intergovernmental Relations; May 5, 2015, reported favorably by
  the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 5, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the Montgomery County Hospital District.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 1063.051(c) and (d), Special District
  Local Laws Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (c)  An election shall be held on the uniform election date
  in November [May] of each even-numbered year to elect the
  appropriate number of directors.
         (d)  Directors serve staggered four-year terms that expire
  on the last day of December [second Tuesday in June].
         SECTION 2.  Section 1063.112, Special District Local Laws
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 1063.112.  CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS. A construction
  contract that involves the expenditure of more than the amount
  provided by Section 271.024, Local Government Code, [$10,000] may
  be made only after advertising in the manner provided by Subchapter
  B, Chapter 271 [Chapter 252 and Subchapter C, Chapter 262], Local
  Government Code.
         SECTION 3.   The board of directors of the Montgomery County
  Hospital District shall adjust the terms of office to conform to a
  change in the election date made by this Act.
         SECTION 4.   This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
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