Bill Text: TX HB2768 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the composition of the board of directors of the Booker Hospital District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-30 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB2768 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2768-Introduced.html
87R6791 SRA-D | ||
By: King of Hemphill | H.B. No. 2768 |
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relating to the composition of the board of directors of the Booker | ||
Hospital District. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1003.051, Special District Local Laws | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1003.051. BOARD. The district is governed by a board | ||
of five [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 1003.052(a), Special District Local Laws | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Unless a four-year term is established under Section | ||
285.081, Health and Safety Code: | ||
(1) directors serve staggered terms of two years; | ||
(2) two [ |
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odd-numbered years and three [ |
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even-numbered years; and | ||
(3) a directors election shall be held on the first | ||
Saturday in May of each year to elect the appropriate number of | ||
directors. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) At the election for directors of the Booker | ||
Hospital District to be held on May 7, 2022, five directors shall be | ||
elected. The three directors who receive the three highest number | ||
of total votes cast at the election shall serve two-year terms and | ||
the two directors who receive the fourth and fifth highest number of | ||
total votes cast at the election shall serve one-year terms. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Section 1003.051, Special District | ||
Local Laws Code, as amended by this Act, the seven directors serving | ||
on the board of directors immediately before the effective date of | ||
this Act continue to serve as the district's governing body until a | ||
majority of the directors elected on May 7, 2022, take office, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. The terms of | ||
the directors serving on the board of directors immediately before | ||
the effective date of this Act expire on the date a majority of the | ||
directors elected on May 7, 2022, take office. | ||
(c) Service on the board of directors of the district before | ||
May 7, 2022, does not make a person ineligible for election as a | ||
director of the district at the election held on May 7, 2022, or at a | ||
subsequent election of district directors. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |