Bill Text: TX HB1618 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 1618 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the number of signatures required on a petition filed in connection with an election to create certain hospital districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB1618 Detail]

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	By: Leman (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst)	H.B. No. 1618
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2021;
	May 6, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
	Human Services; May 14, 2021, reported favorably by the following
	vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 14, 2021, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the number of signatures required on a petition filed in
	connection with an election to create certain hospital districts.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Sections 286.021(a) and (b), Health and Safety
	Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a) Before a district located wholly in one county may be
	created, the county judge of that county must receive a petition
	signed by the greater of:
	(1) at least three percent of the registered voters of
	the territory of the proposed district; or
	(2) 100 registered voters of the territory of the
	proposed district.
	(b) Before a district that contains territory located in
	more than one county may be created, the county judge of each county
	in which the proposed district will be located must receive a
	petition signed by the greater of:
	(1) at least three percent of the registered voters of
	the territory of the county in which the judge presides and of the
	proposed district; or
	(2) 100 registered voters of the territory of the
	county in which the judge presides and of the proposed district.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to a petition filed under Section 286.021, Health and Safety Code,
	on or after the effective date of this Act. A petition filed under
	that section before the effective date of this Act is governed by
	the law in effect on the date the petition was filed, and the former
	law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.

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